On 3rd September 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker was coming off his third feature, 20th Century Women, and was interested in working with the band on... something....(展开全部) On 3rd September 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker was coming off his third feature, 20th Century Women, and was interested in working with the band on... something. A video maybe. Berninger, already a fan of Mills’ films, not only agreed to collaborate, he essentially handed over the keys to the band’s creative process. The result is I Am Easy to Find, a 24-minute film by Mills starring Alicia Vikander, and I Am Easy to Find, a 68-minute album by the National. The former is not the video for the latter; the latter is not the soundtrack to the former. The two projects are, as Mills calls them, “Playfully hostile siblings that love to steal from each other” -- they share music and words and DNA and impulses and a vision about what it means to be human in 2019, but don’t necessarily need one another. The movie was composed like a piece of music; the music was assembled like a film, by a film director. The frontman and natural focal point was deliberately and dramatically sidestaged in favour of a variety of female voices, nearly all of whom have long been in the group’s orbit. It is unlike anything either artist has ever attempted and also totally in line with how they’ve created for much of their careers. As the album’s opening track, ‘You Had Your Soul With You,’ unfurls, it’s so far, so National: a digitally manipulated guitar line, skittering drums, Berninger’s familiar baritone, mounting tension. Then around the 2:15 mark, the true nature of I Am Easy To Find announces itself: the racket subsides, strings swell, and the voice of long-time David Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey booms out—not as background vocals, not as a hook, but to take over the song. Elsewhere it’s Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, or Sharon Van Etten, or Mina Tindle or Kate Stables of This Is the Kit, or varying combinations of them. The Brooklyn Youth Choir, whom Bryce Dessner had worked with before. There are choral arrangements and strings on nearly every track, largely put together by Bryce in Paris—not a negation of the band’s dramatic tendencies, but a redistribution of them. “Yes, there are a lot of women singing on this, but it wasn't because, ‘Oh, let's have more women's voices,’ says Berninger. “It was more, ‘Let's have more of a fabric of people's identities.’ It would have been better to have had other male singers, but my ego wouldn't let that happen."
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1. You Had Your Soul With You 2. Quiet Light 3. Roman Holiday 4. Oblivions 5. The Pull Of You 6. Hey Rosey 7. I Am Easy To Find 8. Her Father In The Pool 9. Where Is Her Head 10. Not In Kansas 11. So Far So Fast 12. Dust Swirls In Strange Light 13. Hairpin Turns 14. Rylan 15. Underwater 16. Light Years
The National I Am Easy To Find 8.2/10.0 整张专辑的风格在同名曲先后有了奇妙的变化(同名曲忽略Interlude的话正好处在正中间,某种程度上也形成了概念的前后变动)但是既然有这种结构的小心思为什么不像Vampire Weekend一样做成一张双碟专辑发行呢? 乐队在重氛围轻旋律的这...
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The National乐队成员Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessener讲述他们与电影制作人Mike Mills充满野心的合作 By Pitchfork, May 17 2019, translated into Chinese by OrangeKnickers,August 2019 如果你对I Am Easy to Find不太了解,这是The National发表的长达64分钟的新专辑,也是...
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对歌词片段及其产生的意境进行联想,是本文的意图。 01 You Had Your Soul with You 02 Quiet Light 03 Roman Holiday 04 Oblivions 05 The Pull of You 06 Hey Rosey 07 I Am Easy to Find 08 Her Father in the Pool [Instrumental] 09 Where Is Her Head 10 Not in Kansas...
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Despite a dearth of catchy songs (Oblivions/I Am Easy to Find excluded) that make you instantly fall in love with this album, The National maintains its notable character by presenting a harmonious, innner-consistent association of tracks. Among other thing...
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0 有用 摩托喇嘛 2021-11-27 04:53:54
滑坡专……
2 有用 IDKAboutYou 2019-05-26 13:52:46
B+(75)鼓和弦乐有增分很多,songwriting都是些什么,我甚至听不出来这张专辑存在着旋律
4 有用 uncle hu 2019-05-17 18:02:24
贩卖“脆弱的中年(男)人”这种人设真没意思,美国李宗盛吗。旋律也写得像念经一样。
6 有用 腰疼脖子酸 2019-05-19 03:07:48
我觉得the national走到这个地步 该做一张纯音乐专辑了 像这种制作考究 有一两首好歌 但是大部分时间无聊哼哼的专辑听着好难受 很明显他们对声音的构造已经甩开他们的写歌水平好几步了 6.3/10
0 有用 littlemirror 2020-03-03 18:54:28
B+
0 有用 仁哲神龟 2022-10-13 00:23:24 浙江
国家队真的是现在的乐队中编曲最为出色的,而这一次女声的加入也使得他们在以鼓和合成器为主导的编曲结构中又加深了另一层维度。而国家队的温柔一如始终,其中几首真是柔情似水。
0 有用 farawaydesoil 2024-03-15 19:25:04 湖南
虽然我还挺喜欢的但事实上就值个七分
0 有用 德拉诺尔 2022-02-14 14:25:21
国家队自high violet后再无好专,一张比一张烂
0 有用 Toan 2022-07-27 22:28:06
A- well 我觉得是他们最好的一专 再砍点歌精简点就好
0 有用 Lecleg 2022-11-20 21:02:20 四川
49/100 难听