The National At Work On New Album

Good news for fans of brainy and brooding indie-rock: The National announced they are at work on their seventh album, the follow-up to 2013’s excellent Trouble Will Find You, NME reports.

Frontman Matt Berninger says the band has held a few writing sessions and now has “sketches of 30 songs,” with various towns in upstate New York standing in as working song titles.

Berninger recently unveiled the lead single for his side project, EL VEY, a collaboration with Menomena’s Brent Knopf. “[The record] is written in the voices of a few invented characters, composites of different people – myself, my wife, and other people I was thinking about,” Berninger said.

Listen to EL Vey’s “Return To The Moon” below.

EL VY 2015 Tour Dates:
11/02 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11/03 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11/04 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/06 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/11 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/13 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
11/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall fo Williamsburg
11/15 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
11/16 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
11/17 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
11/19 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
11/20 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
11/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
12/01 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuse
12/02 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
12/03 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
12/04 – Cologne, DE @ Kantine
12/06 – Berlin, DE @ Astra
12/07 – Brussels, BE @ AB
12/08 – Paris, FR @ Trabendo
12/10 – London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
12/12 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
12/13 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans