The National share new single ‘Day I Die’ and its trippy video

The National are releasing their new album ‘Sleep Well Beast’ next week (8th September), and have shared a fourth taster.

‘Day I Die’ is the most instant showing from the five-piece’s upcoming seventh album, based around a rollocking drum beat and needle-sharp lead guitar line.

The band previously shared ‘The System Only Sleeps In Total Darkness’, ‘Guilty Party’ and ‘Carin At The Liquor Store’ from the album, as well as showcasing album cut ‘Born To Beg’ at a recent gig in Hudson, NY.

The track’s new video is a trippy, almost cartoon-like trip through the track. Its director Casey Reas, speaking in a press release, says: “Graham MacIndoe captured eighteen time-lapse photo series during rehearsals at Le Centquatre in June 2017 in Paris. Hours of rehearsal are compressed into a few minutes. Over five thousand of these photographs were brought together to make the final video. I wrote custom software to collage multiple photographs together and to compile them into videos.

“A flickering colour layer abstracted from broadcast television signals augments the black and white footage. The images here are played back at 12fps, near the threshold of the persistence of vision.”

The National are set to head out on a huge world tour later this year in support of ‘Sleep Well Beast’, taking in four(!) London gigs at the huge Hammersmith Apollo.

View the dates and watch the video for ‘Day I Die’ live.