The National’s Matt Berninger has released a solemn new song, “Let It Be,” which will appear on the upcoming deluxe edition of his 2020 solo album, Serpentine Prison. As Berninger noted on Twitter, his “Let It Be” is not a cover of the Beatles tune, although he added he wrote …
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“I’m near the bottom/Name the blues, I’ve got ‘em,” the National frontman Matt Berninger sings on the delicately despondent “Oh, Dearie,” from his debut solo LP. It’s a song about being completely asphyxiated by fear and doubt — certainly a message for our times. But don’t call the crisis hotline …
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For his first LP since 22, A Million, Justin Vernon dials back the avant-pop extremes a bit, giving human larynxes and other acoustic instruments more room to flex amidst a landscape of synths and vocal-processing veils. You wouldn’t guess it from opening minute or so of the similarly-comma-smitten i, i …
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