The National’s Matt Berninger has released a new EP, Type It Up, which includes covers of New Order’s “Blue Monday” and Velvet Underground’s “Who Loves the Sun,” the latter featuring Roxanne Cash. The follow-up to last year’s Get Sunk also includes Berninger’s recent single “Martini Me Fatso,” as well as a new one, “Ask for Water.”
“These songs came out of the momentum and energy of the Get Sunk tour,” Berninger shares. “I was changing lyrics and form night after night, and we were getting real-time feedback from audiences and social media comments. On the song ‘Type It Up’ (Originally titled ‘Black Letter Font’), people were mishearing the lyric, ‘That would look good in a black letter font’ as ‘I would look good in a black leather thong,’ so I decided to swap the chorus. I’m more of a black linen suit guy.”
