Matt Berninger with The National live at Manchester Apollo. September 2017. (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
Matt Berninger has shared a second track from his forthcoming debut solo album Serpentine Prison.
Distant Axis contains all those meditative National characteristics, and was developed from a demo sent to him by another of the greatest exponents of US alternative rock from the past decade – The Walkmen‘s Walter Martin.
“I met Walter Martin fifteen years ago when The National opened for Walkmen on a tour of shitty clubs in the American southeast,” Berninger explains. “On that tour, I learned a lot about how to be in a band without ruining your life. I also learned a lot about Florida, Tennessee and Georgia.”
“Walt and I have stayed friends, and about three years ago we started passing ideas back and forth. Distant Axis started from a sketch Walt sent me named Savannah. I think it’s about falling out of touch with someone or something you once thought would be there forever.”
