The National’s Matt Berninger is going dark, even for him, on the band’s next album.
“I’m going very dark with the new National record, which is a place I love to go,” he’s told Rolling Stone. “People have always described our music as dark and say it goes very melancholy, somber places. They haven’t heard anything yet! This next thing is crazy.”
There’s going to be an electronic feel on the first LP since 2013’s Trouble Will Find Me, and the lyrical themes are now becoming clear too.
“It’s about marriage, and it’s about marriages falling apart,” Berninger continued. “I’m happily married, and but it’s hard, marriage is hard and my wife and I are writing the lyrics together about our own struggles and it’s difficult to write, but it’s saving my marriage.”