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The National

The National are some friends and two pairs of brothers from Cincinnati, Ohio, who started making music in 1999 when they found themselves living near one another again in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Matt Berninger sings because he's taller, blonder, and older than the rest - Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner and Scott Devendorf play guitar and bass, while Bryan Devendorf drums. Padma Newsome, who's from Australia, has become a fairly permanent fixture too, and plays keyboards and violins and other stranger things. They weren't looking to take over the world with a demo and matching outfits. Rather, music was their way of letting off steam from those good jobs