The National - Laugh Track (CD) Format:CD Magic (Through The Smoke) 4:06

Magic (Through The Smoke)  4:06

The tunes are a succession of hook-laden pop songs tarted up with guitarist-vocalist (and former Nirvana drummer) Dave Grohl's thick guitars and increasingly sugar-sweet vocals

perfectly wiry guitar lines

” The album went on to become quadruple-platinum in the US

The National - Laugh Track (CD) Format:CD Magic (Through The Smoke) 4:06The surprise companion to The National's April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band's most freewheeling, all hands on deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Revelling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed