 Top Seller | Boxer CD (2007)
Matt Berninger songs. On 2007's BOXER, the National's second full-length album for the venerable Beggars Banquet label, the Brooklyn-based indie-rock act follows up the lauded ALLIGATOR with another round of melancholy guitar-driven tunes. Led by deep-voiced vocalist Matt Berninger, who often sounds hung-over ... |
 Top Seller | Alligator CD (2005)
Matt Berninger discography. Two pairs of brothers--Aaron and Bryce Dessner (guitars) and Scott and Bryan Devendorf (bass and drums, respectively)--keep things alternately chiming, churning, and appropriately atmospheric. The startling relationship sketch "Karen," for example, rides a light rock pulse dominated by piano and ... |

| Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton CDs (2010)
Matt Berninger CD discography. The Clogs fifth full-length release builds on the avant-garde chamber ensemble's foundation of kaleidoscopic, indie-classical instrumentals by adding equally unpredictable lyrics and vocals. Multi-instrumentalist Padma Newsome, who composed all of the songs during a 2005 residency at Italy's botanical island paradise, Giardini La Mortella, has crafted a typically labyrinthine and cinematic collection of disparate melodies that draw inspiration from wells all over the world. The quartet is aided in this venture by a trio of guest vocalists including Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger (The National), but more specifically, opera singer-turned indie rocker Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), who appears on six of the ten songs that make up Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton. Like all Clogs releases, Lady Walton defies simple description. There are moments of impossible beauty ("Owl of Love"), dense, but structured dissonance ("Adages of Cleansing"), and of course, whimsical, classically minded, indie folk ("On the Edge"), that when consumed all together, feel like a perfectly executed mash-up of Aaron Copland, Dead Can Dance, Bill Frisell, and Shirley Collins. ~ James Christopher Monger
Composer: Padma Newsome.
Personnel: Sufjan Stevens (vocals, banjo); Padma Newsome (vocals, mandola, violin, viola, celesta); Matt Berninger, Shara Worden (vocals); Bryce Dessner (guitar, mandola, ukulele); ... |

| Derealization CD (2011)
Matt Berninger music CDs. Recording information: Baucom Road; Florida Keys, New York, NY.
Personnel: Alex Tween (vocals, keyboards); Jim Fowler (guitar); Matt Walsh (drums, sampler).
Audio Mixers: The Forms; Scott Solter.
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