Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Sign up for our newsletter. At a second-hand record store, he found a copy of Willie Nelson’s 1978 record Stardust – “one of my parents’ favourite records”, Berninger says warmly, “and anytime I hear anything from that I just feel comforted, or a sense of everything’s okay, everybody’s the same, we’re going to be okay. I have a tattoo that says "Martha Jane." Although his devastating baritone has guided the group for two decades, stripping it down for Serpentine Prison provides a different kind of decadence that only he—as both a vocalist and songwriter—could seamlessly pull off. He writes often with his wife Carin Besser, a former fiction editor at The New Yorker, a collaboration now so long-running that it is hard to disentangle one’s influence from the other. How could you not listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" back on those speakers while sitting on this couch and not feel euphoric and optimistic about your future? “It just might be one record a year and one book a year and that’s it, I don’t know!” he says eagerly. Sam West’s vocals point towards the diaphanous tones of Anohni, the percussion to the spasmodic post-punk of These New Puritans.
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Baltin: You and I were discussing protest songs and you selected Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP," not one typically thought of as a protest song. There's also a table where Johnny Cash used to write lyrics and Tom Petty's vocal booth with like shag carpeting for sound buffering, that was there. These 3 Pieces of High-End Fitness Equipment Are Better Than Anything at the Gym, “I’m near the bottom/Name the blues, I’ve got ‘em,”. Is there a literary influence on this album? And characters have sword fights or characters are looking in the mirror or in a stagecoach going by. “I try to catch myself,” he explains. Although this album probably won’t be his last, it nestles itself nicely among the singer’s existing body of work. For example, the last song, "Serpentine Prison," that's a very Dr. Seuss pattern. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Baltin: I'm not from Cincinnati, but as a Patti Smith fanatic well versed in Mapplethorpe's influence. The result is a set of forlorn ballads that start spare and gather beauty as they grow.
But then the double album, the deluxe, has all the covers on it, or most of the covers. Candace McDuffie is a culture writer whose work has appeared in outlets like Rolling Stone, MTV, NBC News, and Entertainment Weekly. Music Reviews Matt Berninger Share Tweet Submit Pin One of indie rock’s most brooding frontmen—Matt Berninger of The National—has made a career out of making loneliness sound nuanced. I'm a big fan of that. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here.
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