{"id":27805,"date":"2017-08-29T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27805"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:45:32","slug":"the-national-releases-day-i-die-the-4th-song-from-impending-album-sleep-well-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-08\/the-national-releases-day-i-die-the-4th-song-from-impending-album-sleep-well-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Releases “Day I Die”– the 4th Song from Impending Album “Sleep Well Beast”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On September 8th long-time faves The National<\/strong><\/a> will release their new album Sleep Well Best<\/strong><\/em> on 4AD<\/a><\/strong>. We’ve already heard\/seen\u00a0the first three songs:\u00a0The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness<\/a>,\u00a0Guilty Party<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0and CCarin at the Liquor Store<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(seriously, that “dead John Cheever” bit–huh?).<\/p>\n

Now the band has released the fourth song off the album,\u00a0Day I Die<\/strong><\/em>, via the song’s official video. The video was directed by Casey Reas<\/strong>\u00a0who had this to say about the video in a press release: “Graham MacIndoe<\/strong> captured 18 time-lapse photo series during rehearsals at Le Centquatre in June 2017 in Paris. Hours of rehearsal are compressed into a few minutes. Over 5,000 of these photographs were brought together to create the final video. I wrote custom software to collage multiple photographs together and to compile them into videos. A flickering color layer abstracted from broadcast television signals augments the black and white footage. The images are played back at 12fps, near the threshold of the persistence of vision.”<\/p>\n

Check the video out below. Day I Die<\/strong><\/em> is classic The National<\/strong>, replete with references to “great uncle Valentine Jester,” who may or may not be someone’s re-imagined great uncle or a pseudonym therefor, and how does uncle relate to the departed daughter Val Jester<\/strong><\/em> who appeared on Alligator<\/strong><\/em>. Mere conjecture about a jester’s Jester. The song’s lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n