The National announce new live double album ‘Rome’ and share four tracks from the record

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The National have announced plans to release a new live album.Entitled ‘Rome’, the 21-track digital and double vinyl LP set was recorded live on June 3 this year at the Italian city’s Cavea at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone.The release, which is mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis, will also come in a tricolour triple-LP featuring five additional songs to complete the 26-song set on coloured vinyl, available via the band’s Cherry Tree fan club.

It is out on December 13 and can be pre-ordered here.As a taster, the band have shared four tracks from the record today (September 23) on a new EP entitled ‘NTL RM EP I’ which features the tracks ‘I Need My Girl’, ‘Lemonworld’, ‘The Geese of Beverly Road’ and ‘Lit Up’.

You can listen to them below.Other live tracks set to feature on ‘Rome’ include ‘The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness’, ‘England’ and ‘Fake Empire’ plus more recent tracks including ‘Eucalyptus’, ‘New Order T-Shirt’, ‘Tropic Morning News’ and ‘Smoke Detector’.The full tracklisting for the digital/double LP version of ‘Rome’ is as follows:1. ‘Runaway’2. ‘Eucalyptus’3. ‘Tropic Morning News’4. ‘New Order T-Shirt’5. ‘Don’t Swallow The Cap’6. ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’7. ‘The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness’8. ‘I Need My Girl’9. ‘Lemonworld’10. ‘The Geese Of Beverly Road’11. ‘Lit Up’12. ‘Alien’13. ‘Humiliation’14. ‘Murder Me Rachael’15. ‘England’16. ‘Graceless’17. ‘Fake Empire’18. ‘Smoke Detector’19. ‘Mr November’20. ‘Terrible Love’21. ‘Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks’Elsewhere, the band recently told NME that they are in a “very creative space” and are in the “gardening phase” of writing new material.The band dropped two albums in 2023 – ‘The First Two Pages Of Frankenstein‘ and ‘Laugh Track‘ – but this.