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How to follow 2017’s Grammy winner "Sleep Well Beast"? For their eighth studio album, the National are releasing a companion short film (directed by Oscar nominee Mike Mills) inspired by the album. Mills also co-produced this album with the band (the band and Mills are mutual admirers who came together to collaborate on the album as well as the film). The film was composed like a piece of music, and this album—depicting what it means to be a human in the year 2019—plays like a movie: "Quiet Light," "Oblivians," "Roman Holiday," "The Pull of You," "Hey Rosey," "Hairpin Turns" and more. You’ll encounter an array of female voices on this record, which clocks in at 68 sprawling, transfixing minutes on CD or double 180-gram vinyl (with download) or go Deluxe with the standard weight, triple vinyl set in opaque Yellow/Red/Grey! 4AD.