The National - Cherry Tree

CHERRY TREE - EP

A lot has happened since US five-piece THE NATIONAL (five musicians from Ohio now living in New York) released their second full-lenght "Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers" last year.

"Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers" has won critical acclaim from UNCUT ("A genuine treasure", the monthly magazine even named the album one of their top of the year) to the NME, from France's prestigious LIBERATION newspaper (one of its Top Five records for 2003) to the SUNDAY TIMES. The album received also a warm reaction at radio with FRANCE INTER leading the way (the band played Bernard Lenoir's BLACK SESSION on FRANCE INTER, and B. Lenoir chose "Sad Songs" at his # 1 album of the year), FIP french national radio and XFM in England.

The band has toured Europe twice (traveling from France to Austria, from the UK to Italy), and recently completed a US tour including dates with The Walkmen and an appearance at the South By South West Festival in Austin,Texas.

The National's upcoming "CHERRY TREE" EP delivers 6 unreleased songs and a live version of Murder Me Rachael (from the Black Session, France Inter). It was recorded in several places, by Peter Katis at Tarquin Studio, Nick Lloyd at Cretchen's Kitchen, the band in Brooklyn or Padma Newsome / Clogs in Australia who did the strings arrangements and added vocals on tracks 3 & 7.

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