The National Won’t Release New Album Next Year, Matt Berninger Says
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- November 30, 2015
EL VY—the collaborative project of the National‘s Matt Berninger and Menomena/Ramona Falls‘ Brent Knopf—released their album Return to the Moon this past October, and they’re on the road now. Today, Beringer sat down for a Facebook Q&A from his hotel in Copenhagen. He gave an update on the National’s next album. While he said that they plan to play new songs live, the album isn’t coming in 2016.
The band recently offered an update on the new album, with Berninger calling 15 of their new songs “fucking amazing”.
Elsewhere in the Q&A, Beringer revealed that the National will never perform the Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers track “Cardinal Song” in full (“it’s too depressing”). Also, the National did indeed record a new “Bob’s Burgers” song, but it was pulled due to the tragic events in Paris. “It was a goofy song about Thanksgiving and how Europe doesn’t have Thanksgiving,” he said. “Maybe it’ll come out next year, it’s really funny.”
He also discussed his favorite lyricists (Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Kim Deal, and Nick Cave, to name a few), meeting Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, whether his wife actually “drove into the vines”, and much more.
Watch the first part of the Q&A below, and watch the rest here and here.
Copenhagen Q&A
Posted by EL VY on Monday, November 30, 2015
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