![]() "The National Release "Exile Vilify" off Portal 2 Soundtrack". "The National To Provide Song For Portal 2". ^ Portal 2: Collector's Edition Guide.^ "Check Out: The National – "Exile Vilify" ".One video featured a sock puppet that "had nothing to do with Portal" but "managed to beautifully capture the spirit of the song", while the other provided an animated retelling of the Lab Rat comic. Of 320 videos submitted, Valve ultimately awarded two videos first prize. Music video Īfter the game's release, Valve and the National ran a contest encouraging users to create their own music video for "Exile Vilify", offering as prizes Valve merchandise and a guitar signed by members of the band. "Exile Vilify" (alongside other Portal 2 song " Want You Gone") was nominated for "Best Song in a Game" at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards. Exclaim! described the song as a "sombre ballad that places Matt Berninger's melancholic croon atop gloomy piano chords, lush orchestral swells and some subtle percussion". Paste described the song as a "haunted, piano-lead ballad" similar to the band's song "Think You Can Wait" used in the film Win Win. The track was originally to be used in one of several hidden "fake endings" of the game, but was later rewritten to be more sombre and included in the game as an Easter egg. Valve and Bug Music identified that the National would fit well into Portal 2, as their "raw and emotive music evokes the same visceral reactions from its listeners that Portal does from its players" according to Bug Music's spokesperson Julia Betley. The National had expressed to Bug Music, their publishing label, an interest in doing music for Valve which the label forwarded on to Valve in discussing other music opportunities for the game. The lyrics were composed by the group and reviewed by Valve, the company who made the game, to ensure they fit with the tone of one of the Rattmann's dens, where it appears in-game. " Exile Vilify" is a song by indie rock band the National, written for the video game Portal 2 and released as a stand-alone single. *I only just realised that I've worn the same shirt for four out of five of my videos.2011 single by the National "Exile Vilify" The other reason was because this was a very impromptu recording - I hadn't planned to record anything this afternoon and I recorded and mixed the whole thing in just over an hour!īacking Track: Combination of and my own vocal-removed version extracted from the original recording. As a technique, I'm not certain how well it worked but I'm reasonably happy with how this turned out nonetheless. I decided to sing this song with very little warm up, the intention being that it would help me to convey the tired, lonely feel of the song. Thus, it should come as no surprise that I'm doing a song off the Portal 2 soundtrack. As is no doubt apparent from my song and wardrobe choices* thus far, I am kind of a bit of a geek. ![]()
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