The National's Matt Beringer is back with a New Song, “Bonnet of Pins,” that will beal on his second album, Get SunkOut May 30 via Book/Concord Records.
“Bonnet of pins” is a bit of stadium-sized indie rock with drrums and live-wire guitars that steadily build with a buars of horns and choral backing vocals. On the Chorus, Berninger Bellows in His Singular Baritone, “She Finishes of My Drink And/Puts On A Bonnet of Pins and/Says' I Thought I'm you Much Quicker This/You Must've Thought I Didn'T Exist, Poor You/I Do/We'd Better Go Before Your Boyfriends Cry. '”
Get Sunk Follow Berninger's 2020 only debut, Prison Serpentine. The New Album Came About After, As Berninger Put It in A statement, “A Long Period of Writer's Block and Self-Dust,” During Which He Got Fed-Up Asking Himself, “Why Am I Like This?” Though Not necessary autobiographical, The Album Features Narrators Grappling with Questions of Identity and How It's Shaped, Both On An individual and Communal Level.
Berninger Recorded Get Sunk with producer and engineer Sean O'Brien (Who's Also Credited As a Co-Writer on Many Songs). The album features musical contributions from Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Julia Laws (Ronboy), Kyle Resnick (The National, Beirut), Garret Lang, Sterling Laws, Booker T Jones, Harrison Whitford, Mike Brewer, and the Walkmen's Walter Martin and Paul Maroon.
Berninger Will Hit The Road in Support of Get Sunk This Spring, with a North American Tour Kicking Off May 19 in Seattle and Wrapping May 30 in New York City. (A European and Uk Run Will Follow in August and September.) Tickets for the North American Dates Go On Sale March 14 at 10 am Local Time, While a Preseal for members of the National's Cherry Tree Club Will Be Available Tomorrow, March 12.
Matt Beringer 2025 Tour Dates
May 19 – Seattle, Wa @ the Showbox
May 20 – San Francisco, Ca @ Bimbo's 365 Club
May 21 – Los Angeles, Ca @ Palace Theater
May 23 – Minneapolis, Mn @ First Avenue
May 24 – Chicago, @ Thalia Hall
May 26 – Toronto, on @ Concert Hall
May 28 – Philadelphia, Pa @ Union Transfer
May 29 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theater
May 30 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
