The National are well overdue a new album, and by all accounts the follow-up to 2013's 'Trouble Will Find Me' is done and dusted.

In fact, the Brooklyn-based band have unleashed the first teaser from their seventh studio album and it's pretty darned weird, to say the least.

It looks like the album may be called 'Sleep Well Beast', while the promo clip sees a news scroll stating: "The system only dreams in total darkness" over a squally guitar-heavy soundtrack. So far, so Radiohead.

The second teaser is more driven and uptempo, showing a turning hourglass.

Watch them below: