The National to Curate Inaugural Hometown Festival
Homecoming
in Association with MusicNOW
April 28 & 29, 2018 in Cincinnati, OH
Passes on Sale Friday, December 15
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The National are proud to announce the inaugural festival
'Homecoming in Association with MusicNOW,' taking place April 28 &
29 in the band's hometown of Cincinnati. Curated by The National, the
event will feature over 20 artists across two stages at Smale Park, in
addition to venues throughout the city. The National will perform two
completely different shows over two evenings.
The festival will also feature special guests, city-wide
exhibitions, surprises and more starting the evening of Friday, Apr.
27. Weekend passes go on sale tomorrow, Dec. 15, at 10 a.m. Eastern at NTLhomecoming.com.
Today, the band have also released a music video for the title track off their GRAMMY®-nominated album, Sleep Well Beast. The music video is the fifth directed by Casey Reas, with Graham MacIndoe, for the album. "The layers of intense use of color and vibrant photography create a haunting and visually stunning video for the track," said Billboard. Sleep Well Beast has also received a nomination for Best Recording Package by designers Luke Hayman and Andrea Trabucco-Campos of Pentagram.
The National have just wrapped their 2017 world tour with more 2018 tour dates to be announced soon.
Praise for Sleep Well Beast
"On
their first album since scoring a Grammy nomination four years ago, The
National have mastered their own sound, a brooding tunefulness they've
streamlined into their prettiest batch of songs in a career of
constantly topping themselves."
- Consequence of Sound (50 Best Albums of 2017)
"It's the rare album that's both of the moment and timeless."
- USA Today (10 Best Albums of 2017)
"It's
a rock record that rages against our freakish cultural moment not by
sloganeering but by turning inward, circling wagons, taking stock of
beauty and love and gathering strength for what lies ahead."
- Rolling Stone (50 Best Albums of 2017)
"Sleep Well Beast
highlights the National's penchant for magnifying insular conflicts
into something a lot of us can relate to in that moment, a record
detailing marital struggles and familial bonds during what feels like
the end of the world."
- Stereogum (50 Best Albums of 2017)
"An hour-long odyssey into the darkness of our times, both political and personal, Sleep Well Beast
is quietly, gorgeously insinuating, from the Leonard Cohen-esque
"Nobody Else Will Be There" to the electronic thrum that drives the
incredible title track."
- AV Club (20 Best Albums of 2017)
"This album, so full of anger and fear and cautious hope for the future, is an exquisitely unpredictable animal."
- UPROXX (50 Best Albums of 2017)
"Between the swaggering rock of the first half and the roving electronic ballads of the second, Sleep Well Beast shows The National is a band that only gets bolder with age."
- Digital Trends (50 Best Albums of 2017)
2018 Tour Dates
01/20 -- Las Vegas, NV -- The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
01/23 -- Mexico City, MX -- Pepsi Center WTC
04/28 -- Cincinnati, OH -- Homecoming in Association with MusicNOW at Smale Park & beyond
04/29 -- Cincinnati, OH -- Homecoming in Association with MusicNOW at Smale Park & beyond
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