Matt Beringer - Get Sunk (May 30, 2025)

1. Inland Ocean
2. No Love
3. Bonnet of Pins
4. Frozen Oranges
5. Breaking Into Acting [ft. Hand Habits]
6. Nowhere Special
7. Little by Little
8. Junk
9. Silver Jeep [ft. Ronboy]
10 Times of Difficulty

05-19 Seattle, WA - The Showbox
05-20 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo’s 365 Club
05-21 Los Angeles, CA - Palace Theatre
05-23 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
05-24 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
05-26 Toronto, Ontario - Concert Hall
05-28 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
05-29 Washington, D.C. - Lincoln Theatre
05-30 New York, NY - Webster Hall
08-23 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street
08-25 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3 Galvanizers
08-26 Manchester, England - Albert Hall
08-27 London, England - Troxy
08-28-31 Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival
08-31 Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli Vrendenburg
09-01 Antwerp, Belgium - Olt Rivierenhof
09-02 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
09-04 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
09-05 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
09-06 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller Music Hall

 

Serpentine Prison faded very quickly for me, but i love this. need to spin it again in preparation for the new album

 

do we know who else is singing on this track

 

Kyle Resnick and Julia Laws (Ronboy), per Apple Music

 

Serp Pris is v good but I can’t vibe to it as it reminds me too much of the time period it came out in (early COVID + new baby anxiety). I dig how much more rockin’ this one is.

 

Song fucking rocks, better than any of his other solo stuff.

 

^ 100%

 

Well this is already better than Serpentine Prison.

 

The price for the record is bananas. Single LP for $50-60 after tax and shipping is wild. Album is gonna be a streamer for this, Matt/Natty fan!

 

I'm not sure I gave his solo album a listen, or I may have forgot about it but this rules

 

This is so fucking good, you bet I'm at that Dublin show.

 

I cannot overstate how excited I am by this song. It is just so much more “alive” feeling than anything the national has put out in years.

 

I love this new song as much as the rest of you but this Serpentine Prison slander is out of order

 

it's only slander if it isn't true

 

I listened to that album once and don’t remember a thing about it.

 

that's it, I'm beefing with everyone except for Rowan5215

 

It is very good. I do think it is also very “front man’s somewhat-generic/straight-forward solo record” and “session musicians playing good stuff correctly while Matt sings”. There are a handful of really good songs that I think make those descriptions feel reductive and his baritone storyteller vibe helps it become better than the sum of its parts.

The new track sounds more like a proper band with Matt on vocals though which is exciting. I hope they lean more into this and this isn’t the one standout energy song and an unintentional fakeout as the single.

 

I'll die on this hill with you. ok there's a few songs on there I don't love (looking at you Distant Axis) but on the whole it rules

while we're on the subject just wanna remind everyone of this absolutely gorgeous Mercury Rev cover he did in that era:

 

for the record, i don't hate Serpentine Prison. i have it on vinyl and it's sounded good every time i've played it. it just didn't have the pull i was expecting. i definitely need to go back and spin it again very soon.

 

subbing after Rowan said the first single has New Order vibes