Watch The National Perform “Dark Side of the Gym” on Fallon
The song is off their latest album, Sleep Well Beast
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The National appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night for a performance of “Dark Side of the Gym” off their latest album Sleep Well Beast. The song finds Matt Berninger and company in peak melancholia. The song is a prom-song, slow-dance piano dirge, one that is elevated from potential “rainy teen movie montage” territory by the exquisite textures The National have become experts at threading into their songs.