The National Recruit Vincent Moon For Boxer Documentary
Wednesday May 07, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

The National

The National have teamed up with French director Vincent Moon again. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band hired the man behind the La Blogotheque Take-Away Shows videos to make a feature film titled A Skin, A Night, which documents the making of their 2007 album, Boxer.

You can preview A Skin, A Night on The National's website.

The movie will be released on DVD on May 20 by Beggars Banquet. It will also include a 12-track CD titled The Virginia EP that features demo recordings, a track from last year's Daytrotter session, live songs (including a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Mansion On The Hill") and B-sides.

Moon has been recruited by many other artists — including Arcade Fire, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Jose Gonzalez and The Shins — to film their performances for La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows series.

The National — composed of Matt Berninger, brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, and brothers Bryan and Scott Devendorf — are touring with R.E.M. and Modest Mouse.They'll play Vancouver's Deer Lake Park on May 23 and Toronto's Molson Amphitheatre on June 8.

Here are the tracks on The Virginia EP:

• "You've Done It Again Virginia"
• "Santa Clara"
• "Blank Slate"
• "Tall Saint" (demo)
• "Without Permission"
• "Forever After Days"
• "Rest Of Years" (demo)
• "Slow Show" (demo)
• "Lucky You" (Daytrotter session)
• "Mansion On The Hill" (live)
• "Fake Empire" (live)
• "About Today" (live)

—Jessica Lewis