The National have released a video for their new single “Your Mind is Not Your Friend,” which features Phoebe Bridgers. The song appears on the band’s forthcoming album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, out April 28th via 4AD.
“When I feel stuck, I’ll often grab a book off the shelf just to get some words in my head, and the first two pages of Frankenstein ended up triggering ‘Your Mind Is Not Your Friend,’” frontman Matt Berninger recalls. “The book starts off with the narrator on a voyage near the Arctic Circle, and that image of being adrift helped me to write about feeling disconnected and lost and lacking in purpose. Once I started confronting that strange, blurry panic of not having ideas, everything began to crack open a bit.”
Photo credit: Josh Goleman
