The National Members Turning Multimedia Show Into Album

Last year, Aaron and Bryce Dessner from the National teamed up with artist Matthew Ritchie to create The Long Count, a multimedia performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Matt Berninger, the National's singer, helped out, as did the Breeders' Kim and Kelley Deal and My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden. As it turns out, The Long Count will live on; the Dessners are turning it into an album. Bryce Dessner tells Exclaim! that he, his brother, and Berninger are all at work on a recorded v...

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