Pro-Shot Video: The National Full Performance On KEXP

Seattle-based independent radio station KEXP recently welcomed The National for an live in-studio performance. The session saw the band playing selections from their latest studio album Sleep Well Beast as well as a rare unreleased song.

The new record’s opening track “Nobody Else Will Be There” opened The National’s session at the station’s new facility. They continued with fellow album cut “Guilty Party,” a chat with host John Richards, and the LP’s “Carin At The Liquor Store” whose title references frontman Matt Berninger’s wife. The band concluded with a performance of the unreleased original “Rylan.” Berninger & Co. first unveiled “Rylan” for a 2011 CBC session and it quickly disappeared from live sets and never made it onto an album. The National dusted off the tune earlier this fall.

Watch The National at KEXP below: