“Bonnet of Pins” by Matt Berninger

"Bonnet of Pins" arrived on May 30, 2025, the same day as Get Sunk, the second solo album by the National's frontman Matt Berninger, and like most of that record it's a co-write with his longtime collaborator Sean O'Brien, who also produced, recorded and mixed it.

O'Brien is all over the track on acoustic and electric guitars and keyboards, with Ronboy adding more keys, Sterling Laws on drums and percussion and Kyle Resnick on trumpet; Resnick and Ronboy stack the backing vocals behind Berninger's lead. The album came out of a hard stretch. After his 2020 debut Serpentine Prison, Berninger went through a major depressive episode and writer's block, and by 2023 he was writing lyrics again in the barn of his new Connecticut home. Get Sunk itself was cut in a Silver Lake basement studio in California.

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