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I Am Easy to Find is the eighth studio album by American indie rock band The National, released on May 17, 2019, via 4AD. The follow-up to the band's 2017 album, Sleep Well Beast, it was supported by the lead single, "You Had Your Soul with You", and accompanied by a short film of the same name, directed by Mike Mills and starring Alicia Vikander. Vikander is also featured on the album cover. A trailer was released for the companion film along with the announcement of the album. A tour promoting the album began in June 2019.
Background
The bulk of the album was recorded at Long Pond studio in Hudson Valley, New York. Parts were recorded in other cities, including Paris, Berlin, Dublin, Cincinnati, Austin, and Brooklyn. The album and film, while having influenced each other, were essentially made separately. A press release stated that the album "is not the soundtrack" for the film; the idea for the album itself came after the film was shot.
The album features female vocalists including Lisa Hannigan, Sharon Van Etten, Mina Tindle, Gail Ann Dorsey, Kate Stables, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
Critical reception
I Am Easy to Find was met with universal acclaim, receiving a score of 81 on Metacritic, the review aggregating site. Reviewing in his Substack-published "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau said that "almost every track is open to substantive female input on a musical whole that feels consistently interactive and empathetic and also not so glum—even when you can’t pin down exact meanings, it makes love sound possible." More negative critics, such as The Observer's Phil Mongredien, complained about the album's flatness and inaccessibility.
= Year-end rankings
=Track listing
All tracks are written by Matt Berninger and produced by Aaron Dessner, unless noted otherwise.
Notes
The album's liner notes credit all lyrics as written by Berninger, Besser and Mills; and all music as composed by A. Dessner and B. Dessner. Track-by-track credits are adapted from Tidal.
"Not in Kansas" contains an interpolation of "Noble Experiment", originally performed by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 on the album Strangers from the Universe, written by Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Brian Hageman, Jay Paget and Hugh Swarts.
Personnel
Short film
Director Mike Mills developed a short film based on early clips of the songs featured on the album. As the two projects developed concurrently, the final songs used in each differ from one another.
Mills chose the title for both the short film and the album from a lyric in the song of the same name. The song was originally titled "Washington" before Mills insisted on altering it.
= Cast
=Alicia Vikander
Kate Adams as Young mother
Riley Shanahan as Young father
Charts
References
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- Linkin Park
- Girls' Generation
- Aaron Dessner
- Korn
- Demi Lovato
- Elvis Presley
- Madonna
- P.O.D.
- Ayumi Hamasaki
- SF9
- I Am Easy to Find (album)
- I Am Easy to Find
- I Am Easy to Find (film)
- The National (band)
- Greg Calbi
- Am I the Same Girl
- Starflyer 59
- You Had Your Soul with You
- Tedeschi Trucks Band
- Stray Kids
