National, The: Trouble Will Find Me (Vinyl 2xLP)

This is the sixth studio album for the Brooklyn band, and follows 2010's critical and commercial success High Violet. The album is the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career. Trouble Will Find Me possesses a directness, a coherency and an approachability that suggests The National are at their most confident.

After a 22-month tour following the release of High Violet the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, guitarist Aaron Dessner began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realise.

The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginnings.