Blog: Soft Signal

Very late and very quick post today. A while back I posted about The National’s most recent bit of brooding output, “ Exile Vilify ,” which anchored the soundtrack for the video game Portal 2 . Since then, the game's developers held a contest for fans to come up with what would become the official video for the track, with The National in as judges, picking the first and “1.00000000001th” place entries. The result is a slice of sock puppet mopery and some rather dour animation. First place, directed by C. F. [...]