While The National enjoy a well-deserved break in 2025, frontman Matt Berninger will release his second solo album, Get Sunk, May 30 on Book/Concord Records. The lead track, “Bonnet of Pins,” is out now.
Berninger worked on the follow-up to 2020’s Booker T. Jones-produced Serpentine Prison with producer/engineer/co-writer Sean O’Brien, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, The Walkmen’s Walter Martain and Paul Maroon, Ronboy and the National’s Kyle Resnick. Jones also makes a return appearance on an album said to be inspired “by the flora and fauna” of Berninger’s new home in Connecticut after years of living in Los Angeles.
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Berninger was also driven by the same “long period of writer’s block and self-disgust” that plagued him while working on the National’s 2023 album First Two Pages of Frankenstein. “I just got sick of asking myself ‘Why am I like this?,’” he says.
The artist will support Get Sunk with a short run of May tour dates in North America and another August/September leg in the U.K. and Europe. He’ll be backed by the core Get Sunk band, including Ronboy’s Julia Laws, who will open all dates. Click here for more information.
Here is the track list for Get Sunk:
Inland Ocean
No Love
Bonnet of Pins
Frozen Oranges
Breaking Into Acting (feat. Hand Habits)
Nowhere Special
Little by Little
Junk
Silver Jeep (feat. Ronboy)
Times of Difficulty
Here are Matt Berninger’s tour dates:
May 19 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
May 20 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
May 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Palace Theatre
May 23 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
May 24 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
May 26 – Toronto, ON – Concert Hall
May 28 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
May 29 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre
May 30 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
August 23 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street
August 25 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Galvanizers
August 26 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
August 27 – London, UK – Troxy
August 28-31 – Wiltshire, UK – End Of The Road Festival
August 31 – Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli Vredenburg
September 1 – Antwerp, Belgium – Olt Rivierenhof
September 2 – Paris, France – Elysee Montmartre
September 4 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys
September 5 – Copehagen, Denmark – Vega
September 6 – Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller Music Hall
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