The National has had a busy day today. In addition to releasing their excellent new album High Violet, they also released a new music video for it’s first single “Bloodbuzz Ohio”.

Don’t expect any special effects or car chases, as the video pretty much just follows singer Matt Berninger as he pensively wanders about town.  There is a cameo by famed rock director D.A. Pennebaker as a bartender.  Pennebaker will be directing the webcast of the National’s 5/15 show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  The  preview for this event is below the music video, and looks an awful lot like another famouse piece of Pennebakers’s work.

The National – “Bloodbuzz Ohio” (official video) from The National on Vimeo.