The National release their first proper video -- "Sea of Love" -- from their new record Trouble Will Find Me, which will be out May 21, 2013 on 4AD records.

The video shows them shoe-horned into a small room with stripped-down instrumentation and no mic stand, all of which serves to highlight the performance by the band. Except for the adorable kid who steps in and air-guitars through most of it.

2 big questions emerge from the video:

1) How will the guitarist Bryce Dessner ever get down from that shelf?

and

2) Is the air guitar kid -- Rivers Curry, we presume -- additive, (so cute!) or distracting (cute does not have a place in songs by The National)?

In their Reddit IAMA discussion, Matt Berninger pointed out that the video was an homage to this Latvian performance.

M- Actually there's one video that we all really love so we made this homage.

What do you think about the song? The video? Let us know in the comments.