Claude says:The National's seventh album won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album and was recorded in a rebuilt 18th-century Hudson Valley barn that guitarist Aaron Dessner turned into a studio — the structure's stark geometry became the cover shot and the basis for Pentagram's corporate-parody branding campaign. You picked it up in early 2018 and played "Carin at the Liquor Store," "Day I Die," and "Guilty Party" for a few weeks before moving on.