{"id":807635,"date":"2020-05-20T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002630"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:00:09","slug":"matt-berninger-announces-debut-solo-album-serpentine-prison-drops-title-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/matt-berninger-announces-debut-solo-album-serpentine-prison-drops-title-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Berninger Announces Debut Solo Album \u2018Serpentine Prison,\u2019 Drops Title Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/10495655d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\">The National\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/matt-berninger\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-berninger\" data-tag=\"matt-berninger\">Matt Berninger<\/a> will be releasing his debut solo album,&nbsp;<em>Serpentine Prison<\/em>, on October 2nd. Produced by renowned Memphis multi-instrumentalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/booker-t-jones\/\">Booker T. Jones<\/a>, the LP will be released on Book Records, a new imprint of Concord Records formed by Berninger and Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Berninger has also shared the album\u2019s title track along with a video showing its recording process in the studio. \u201cDon\u2019t try to connect the dots anymore,\u201d Berninger croons over strummed guitar, subdued percussion and a single organ note. \u201cLet \u2019em go, they\u2019re gonna do it on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Berninger collaborated with the Walkmen frontman Walter Martin on a kooky shelter-in-place song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/walter-martin-matt-berninger-drop-quarantine-boogie-984204\/\">\u201cQuarantine Boogie (Loco).\u201d<\/a> The duo also worked with Phoebe Bridgers for the recording of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-matt-berninger-phoebe-bridgers-duet-898986\/\">Walking On a String<\/a>,\u201d which was featured in Zach Galifianakis\u2019 Netflix film&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/between-two-ferns-the-movie-trailer-879358\/\"><em>Between Two Ferns: The Movie<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">the National<\/a>, Berninger has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-youtube-series-979345\/\"><em>An Exciting Communal Event<\/em>,<\/a> a weekly YouTube Live series that features live shows and other rare or unseen footage from the band every Monday at 5:00 p.m. ET. The project is supporting the band\u2019s road crew relief fund. Additionally, the group created an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-fundraiser-live-crew-coronavirus-972272\/\">initiative<\/a>&nbsp;donating all profits from their webstore and fan club enrollment to their 12 crew employees affected by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-japan-concerts-cancel-coronavirus-960435\/\">tour date cancellations<\/a> amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/989r2b-the-national-touring-crew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GoFundMe<\/a> for the crew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/matt-berninger-serpentine-prison-1002630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National\u2019s Matt Berninger will be releasing his debut solo album,&nbsp;Serpentine Prison, on October 2nd. Produced by renowned Memphis multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones, the LP will be released on Book Records, a new imprint of Concord Records formed by Berninger and Jones. Berninger has also shared the album\u2019s title track along with a video showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 15:08:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}