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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOUR MIND IS NOT YOUR FRIEND")

So it triggered a song called "Your Mind Is Not Your Friend." And that was like, oh, yeah, that's kind of the - what I wanted to do to my brain, I think, a little bit.

And then there are these lines about being in the ocean and in the North Pole, and so, tranquilize the oceans between the poles, was just the first line I wrote. I'm just, like - I'm just letting, like, words to pop in, and - but there was some line about tranquilizing something. And sometimes I'll just grab a book off the shelf, and I grabbed that, and I just kind of, like, skimmed over words. I mean, for a long period I couldn't write at all, and nothing was helping. MATT BERNINGER: Well, I was struggling to write. We asked Matt Berninger, who is lead singer for The National, about the title of the album, and he says it has more to do with his own creative process than Mary Shelley's. SIMON: The National's new album, "First Two Pages Of Frankenstein," merges their distinct sound with a star-studded lineup of collaborators, including Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens and Phoebe Bridgers. There's nothing stopping me now from saying all the painful parts out loud.

THE NATIONAL: (Singing) I was suffering more than I let on. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TROPIC MORNING NEWS") The Cincinnati band is known for raw and at times searing lyrics layered over rich, pensive melodies, a sound that recently has been labeled sad dad rock. For years The National have captured the sound of Gen X and Millennial anxiousness.