I Am Easy to Find Tracklist
The longest and boldest album by The National, “I Am Easy To Find” features an album cover sporting Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, the star of the short film by the same name on the life of an ordinary woman. The album was released through 4AD, and has a short film directed by Mike Mills on YouTube using various songs off the album. The album features extensive female vocals, from singers such as Gail Ann Dorsey and Sharon Van Etten. Four singles were released preceding its release, You Had Your Soul With You, Light Years, Hairpin Turns, and Rylan. This is their eighth studio album, and follows their highly acclaimed “Sleep Well, Beast.”
“I Am Easy to Find” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
Yes, there are a lot of women singing on this, but it wasn’t because, ‘Oh, let’s have more women’s voices, it was more, ‘Let’s have more of a fabric of people’s identities.’ It would have been better to have had other male singers, but my ego wouldn’t let that happen.”
Matt Berninger in a statement accompanying the announcement of the album.
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Where did the title come from?
Mike Mills (who directed the film accompanying the album) and Matt Berninger
addressed this question in an interview with Pitchfork. According to Mills:It was an intuitive choice. I like how it’s sort of a lie: No one is easy to find—you yourself aren’t easy to find."
Berninger added:
What makes you you? It’s about how often we lose an idea of ourselves, or we can’t catch up to who we’re becoming. And you can be found—that’s why we’re not alone. When you get totally fucked up and you’re in that dark space, you can send a little text to somebody. You can connect."
