The National frontman Matt Berninger appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase his solo track “Bonnet of Pins.” The singer performed the layered indie rock tune alongside a live band, occasionally sharing vocals with his keyboardist. “Bonnet of Pins” comes off Berninger’s recent LP, Get Sunk, which arrived in May. …
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“Maybe after once in a lifetime, we’ll figure out what we lost,” Matt Berninger sings on “No Love,” a reflective, lachrymose highlight from his second solo album. The National frontman sounds like he could spend several lifetimes pondering that question. On Get Sunk, he continues to work the same tastefully …
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The National’s Matt Berninger is back with a new song, “Bonnet of Pins,” that will appear on his second solo album, Get Sunk, out May 30 via Book/Concord Records. “Bonnet of Pins” is a bit of stadium-sized indie rock with driving drums and live-wire guitars that steadily build with a …
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The National superfan David Letterman got the chance to sit down with the band’s frontman Matt Berninger for a long conversation about music, songwriting, and their individual battles with depression. The conversation debuted Friday, and immediately got right to the heavy stuff. Berninger opened up about the deep phase of …
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The National have released two new songs, “Alphabet City” and “Space Invader.” The latter arrived with a moody visualizer directed by Noah Sacré and Pauline de Lassus, with animation and drawings by de Lassus. The melancholy, seven-minute track sees frontman Matt Berninger imagining alternate scenarios. “What if I stayed on …
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Nashville singer-songwriter Caroline Spence offers a meditation on intimacy with the National’s Matt Berninger in “I Know You Know Me.” The new collaboration follows Spence’s 2019 album Mint Condition. Built around a set of thick acoustic guitar chords, “I Know You Know Me” is heavy on atmosphere and gradually brings …
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