The National offers a collection of prolific musicians including frontman Matt Berninger, twin brothers and guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner, and brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf on bass guitar ...

Once a cure for melancholy, the National now feel like a cause. Photo: Beggars Group Digital If there is a single regression that makes this unhappy triplet of records sound so uniformly dim and ...

I first heard The National's newest album, Laugh Track, on the day last month when my wife, Tina, and I finally set foot in our new house, thousands of miles from where we'd always lived. It was not ...