Cincinnati-Bred The National Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Self-Titled Debut Album with Special Bandcamp Announcement

The National posted old photos and a special announcement on the band's social media to celebrate the 20th-anniversary of album The National.

Oct 29, 2021 at 12:39 pm
click to enlarge The National - Photo: Graham MacIndoe
Photo: Graham MacIndoe
The National

Cincinnati-bred Indie Rockers The National are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album today. 

And what better way to honor the release than announcing that their full musical catalog — "from our first album to I Am Easy To Find," writes the band on Facebook — will be available on Bandcamp tomorrow.

The Grammy winners posted the announcement to social media, along with some old photos.

While you wait to listen to their full oeuvre, take a look back at photos from The National's inaugural Homecoming Music Festival at Smale Riverfront Park in 2018; listen to frontman Matt Berninger cover the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man;" or revisit the Twitter reactions to guitarist and producer Aaron Dessner's first collaboration with Pop icon Taylor Swift on her surprise album, folklore.

Oh yeah, you can also watch Dessner perform "The Ghost of Cincinnati" on The Late Show, Starring Jimmy Fallon from his Big Red Machine project with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon.

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