From a career in advertising to editing fiction for The New Yorker to founding the beloved indie-rock group the National, Matt Berninger has never been rooted in a single notion of identity, something that was surely only exacerbated after being launched into the role of a lifetime: critically acclaimed rock star.
Now, on the second single from his upcoming solo album “Get Sunk” “Breaking Into Acting,” following the phenomenal, more rollicking “Bonnet of Pins”.
A strangely tender, quietly devastating duet about the artifice of feeling. It’s not a dramatic song, but it is full of drama Matt Berninger has teamed up with Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, for his new single ‘Breaking Into Acting’.
Lifted from the National frontman’s forthcoming album “Get Sunk”, the acoustic track gently confronts performativity as the pair sing, “Your mouth is always full of blood packets/ You’re breaking into acting/ I completely understand.” Berninger had this to say about it: “Sometimes you have to fake forgiveness before you can actually forgive.”
Check out the song’s Hopper Mills-directed video .
“Get Sunk” is set to arrive on May 30th. It was led by ‘Bonnet of Pins’,
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