I Am Easy To Find is The National’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to 2017’s GRAMMY®-award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion short film with the same name will also be released with music by The National and inspired by the album. The film was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners), and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. Mills, along with the band, is credited as co-producer of the album, which was recorded at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY with vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. On September 3, 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s nearly 20-year career was born and plans for a hard-earned vacation died. The Los Angeles-based filmmaker was coming off his third feature, 20th Century Women, and was interested in working with the band on...something. A video maybe. Berninger, already a fan of Mills’ films, not only agreed to collaborate, he essentially handed over the keys to the band’s creative process. The result is I Am Easy to Find, a 24-minute film by Mills starring Alicia Vikander, and I Am Easy to Find, a 68-minute album by the National. The former is not the video for the latter; the latter is not the soundtrack to the former. The two projects are, as Mills calls them, “Playfully hostile siblings that love to steal from each other”—they share music and words and DNA and impulses and a vision about what it means to be human in 2019, but don’t necessarily need one another. The movie was composed like a piece of music; the music was assembled like a film, by a film director. The frontman and natural focal point was deliberately and dramatically side staged in favor of a variety of female voices, nearly all of whom have long been in the group’s orbit. It is unlike anything either artist has ever attempted and also totally in line with how they’ve created for much of their careers.
The National, I Am Easy To Find
Label: 4AD, 4AD0154LP
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g
Country: Europe
Released: 17 May 2019
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Track listing...
Side A)
A1 You Had Your Soul With You
A2 Quiet Light
A3 Roman Holiday
A4 Oblivions
Side B)
B1 The Pull Of You
B2 Hey Rosey
B3 I Am Easy To Find
B4 Her Father In The Pool
Side C)
C1 Where Is Her Head
C2 Not In Kansas
C3 So Far So Fast
C4 Dust Swirls In Strange Light
Side D)
D1 Hairpin Turns
D2 Rylan
D3 Underwater
D4 Light Years
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – 4AD Ltd.
Copyright (c) – 4AD Ltd.
Licensed From – The National
Published By – BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Produced At – Long Pond
Recorded At – Long Pond
Recorded At – Earthstar Creation Center
Mixed At – Long Pond
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BJ63751
Credits
Arranged By, Performer [Performed By] – The National
Creative Director – Mike Mills
Design [Album Design] – Osk
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Bella Blasko
Lacquer Cut By – JN-H
Lyrics By, Arranged By [Melodies] – Carin Besser, Matt Berninger, Mike Mills
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mastered By [With] – Steve Fallone
Mixed By – Peter Katis
Mixed By [Additional Mixing By] – Jonathan Low
Music By – Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner
Orchestrated By [Orchestration By] – Bryce Dessner
Performer [The National] – Aaron Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Bryce Dessner, Matt Berninger, Scott Devendorf
Producer – Mike Mills, The National
Producer [Additional Production, Berlin & Paris] – Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner
Producer [Additional Production, Los Angeles] – Matt Berninger
Recorded By – Jonathan Low
Recorded By [Additional Recording By] – Sean O'Brien
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