The National trotted out a new track in Copenhagen on Tuesday night, “A Thousand Black Cities,” (captured here in shaky YouTube format) the first of their post-Boxer material. The song is pretty somber (like every National song) but the matador (the bullfighter, not the label) horns create an anthemic atmosphere.
The band have a couple of festival dates coming up, but then its presumably time off to get this ditty down onto wax.
The National tour dates:
08.13 Aarhus, Denmark: Train !
08.15 Biddinghuizen, NL: Lowlands Festival
08.16 Kiewit Hasselt, Belgium: Pukkelpop Festival
08.17 Becon Beacons, UK: The Green Man Festival
09.19 Seattle, WA: Co-ops Rock! Benefit
09.20 San Diego, CA: Street Scene
10.24 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Tim Festival
10.25 Sao Paulo, Brazil: Tim Festival
10.27 Vitoria, Brazil: Ufes Theatre
! w/ Efterklang
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