Album review: The National do it live in Rome
Jeff Jenkins
STACK Writer
As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day. This 21-track collection gathers material from The National’s career, which started 25 years ago and has featured ten studio albums.
The double live album was recorded on June 3 this year at Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica. It’s real, it’s raw, and it captures the great American band in full flight. No overdubs.
The earliest single to be featured on Rome is Lit Up, which The National originally released in 2005.
The album also includes 2008’s Fake Empire. Sixteen years later, this song still resonates. Singer Matt Berninger says it’s about “where you can’t deal with the reality of what’s really going on, so let’s just pretend that the world’s full of bluebirds and ice skating”.
Rome by The National is out December 13 via 4AD.
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