{"id":2445187,"date":"2019-06-11T07:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=846656"},"modified":"2019-06-11T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:38:39","slug":"the-national-give-choir-backed-performance-of-oblivions-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-national-give-choir-backed-performance-of-oblivions-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Give Choir-Backed Performance of \u2018Oblivions\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-11-at-9.33.57-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\">The National<\/a> made an appearance on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\"><em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em><\/a> on Monday night to perform \u201cOblivions,\u201d a track from their latest album&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-the-nationals-i-am-easy-to-find-836169\/\"><em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em><\/a> and its accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-short-film-834586\/\">short film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The contemplative song was co-written by frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser, and features the vocals of Mina Tindle and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Both Tindle and members of the Chorus appeared alongside The National on <em>The<\/em> <em>Tonight Show<\/em>, along with an orchestral sextet. Even though the five-piece band had ballooned into nearly 30 people onstage, The National managed to make the performance of \u201cOblivions\u201d feel as intimate and meditative as it sounds in the studio version, anchored by Berninger and Tindle\u2019s central performances.<\/p>\n<p>The National previously made appearances on <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em> to perform two other <em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em> tracks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-the-national-perform-rylan-on-colbert-839455\/\">\u201cRylan\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-the-national-perform-you-had-your-soul-with-you-colbert-835520\/\">\u201cYou Had Your Soul With You.\u201d<\/a> They\u2019re currently on tour in North America in support of the album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-oblivions-jimmy-fallon-846656\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National made an appearance on&nbsp;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to perform \u201cOblivions,\u201d a track from their latest album&nbsp;I Am Easy to Find and its accompanying short film. The contemplative song was co-written by frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser, and features the vocals of Mina Tindle and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 17:01:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}