NATIONAL - Laugh Track 2LP surf hip-wiggling and bollock-pummelling breakbeats across

hip-wiggling and bollock-pummelling breakbeats across this bang-on 10-song blast

The band’s plain instrumentation sheds and subverts hardcore punk’s noisy veil in favor of a direct

for 2010’s menacing Ritual Abuse and

split releases

Not only is it hard to come up with a regional precedent for The Gospel Truth

NATIONAL - Laugh Track 2LP surf hip-wiggling and bollock-pummelling breakbeats acrossWhen The National released their first album in 4 years, there was a sense of underwhelming. The First Two Pages of Frankenstein is a good album but after such a long gap one felt that their should have been more to it. Turns out their was and here we are a few months later with it's follow up, Laugh Track. Very much companions in style, Laugh Track manages the open goal of being thematically more upbeat than Frankenstein. Overall it probably has