With the announcement of Matt Berninger’s new collaboration, EL VY, as well as the multiple producing projects from the Dessner brothers have constantly been working on, it might feel like a new National album is in the far distance. However, this is not true according to Berninger.
In a recent interview with NME, the National frontman has revealed that the band has already begun writing their seventh studio album. Berninger said on the progress so far: “We did a camp out retreat in New York a couple of months ago, and we’re having another one in LA in a few weeks. We have 30 sketches of songs so far.”
He also added that the band is using names of different towns in upstate New York as working titles for the songs. 

The National’s previous album was Trouble Will Find Me in 2013.