National - Laugh Track Eition:Black Vinyl vocalist Matt Berninger and company

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National - Laugh Track Eition:Black Vinyl vocalist Matt Berninger and companyNEW VINYL LP ON 4AD 2023 180 GRAM VINYL. The surprise companion to The Nationals April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the bands most freewheeling, all hands on deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its