New National - "So Far Around The Bend"

So far Dark Was The Night's brought us David Byrne + Dirty Projector's "Knotty Pine" and Ben Gibbard + Feist making like Vashti Bunyan (+ Gibbard) for "Train Song." Fittingly, on Inauguration Day 2009, the guys who dressed you in Mr. November t-shirts, offer "So Far Around the Bend," arranged beautifully by Nico Muhly. The upbeat but downcast track finds Matt singing about a serious lady "living off a teacup full of cherries." She can't be found in a million bars or a thousand parties. She's "b...

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