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Watch The National air new album cut ‘Born to Beg’ live
Mouse On Mars and Arone Dyer from Buke & Gase joined the band for the performance in Hudson.

The National release their seventh album ‘Sleep Well Beast’ on 8th September, and ahead of that, the band performed the whole blimmin’ album in full during a two day event - named after single ‘Guilty Party’ -at Basilica Hudson in Hudson, New York.
During the show, German electro-heads Mouse On Mars and Arone Dyer from Brooklyn outfit Buke & Gase joined the band for a live airing of ‘Born to Beg’; which appears on The National’s new album.
Along with ‘Guilty Party’ the band also previously shared another track from the ‘Sleep Well Beast’, ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’.
Watch The National air ‘Born to Beg’ live in Hudson below.
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