Album number ten from The National is a looser follow-up to its predecessor ‘Frankenstein’, as the band returns from a programmed sound to live drums thanks to writing the majority of the album on the road. Retaining the slow pace of the previous release, there is a sprightfulness added to their step as guitar arpeggios drive ‘Turn off the House’, while the accompaniment of Bon Iver on ‘Weird Goodbyes’ broadens the palette from leaning too heavily on frontman Matt Berninger’s introspection. Elsewhere, Phoebe Bridgers joins for the title track while Rosanne Cash joins on the elegant ‘Crumble’. Closer ‘Smoke Detector’ is an epic eight-minute feedback-heavy electric guitar jam with a dark and loose poetic vocal from Berninger that lightly hints at the influence of Sonic Youth and is a late album highlight.