Matt Berninger (The National)

The National frontman’s 2nd solo album is a bold work that pairs his patented melancholy-tinged drawl with a lithe set of ballads that dynamically shift between floating breaths of nostalgia-toned solitude to vivacious, driving anthems that revel in the spirit of collaboration & companionship.

'Get Sunk' is an ode to the infinite. It brings brush-stroked, blurry memories to the surface, amassing in a heap of colors and connections that stretches beyond individuality and into an endless altering. Under water, everything moves in slow motion and for Matt Berninger, he saw his creative voice slipping away with the current. But sometimes we have to drown to remember how to breathe. 'Get Sunk' is the purgative inhale. It’s seeing the undulating reflection in the water and realizing that you are not yourself without a thousand others: parents, friends, siblings, spouses and exes, college roommates, childhood best friends, cousins and kids, strangers even––all of it––make up the spirit of 'Get Sunk'’s narrator.

Berninger wanted to figure out why he loves what he does and it’s in the album’s collaborative spirit and loose, unfurling attitude that Berninger looked up and felt the warmth on his face. When we sink into ourselves, we’ll often find that we are actually swimming with others.

For Fans Of: The National / Elbow / The Twilight Sad