The National’s Matt Berninger is readying a new EP, Type It Up, featuring covers of New Order’s “Blue Monday” and Velvet Underground’s “Who Loves the Sun,” the latter featuring Rosanne 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,” that you can hear below via a video from Chris Sgroi.
“These songs came out of the momentum and energy of the Get Sunk tour,” Berninger shares. “I was changing lyrics and forms 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.”
Both of the aforementioned covers are compiled here after standalone releases this year: “Blue Monday” was an Amazon Music Original track and “Who Loves the Sun” debuted on the Australian television show Sunny Nights.
Type It Up:
01 Martini Me Fatso
02 Type It Up
03 Ask for Water
04 Blue Monday
05 Who Loves the Sun
06 Martini Me Fatso (Acoustic Live in Australia) [vinyl only]