As the voice and lyricist of The National, Matt Berninger spent two decades making records that felt like they'd been written specifically for you - bruised, literary, orchestral, and devastatingly precise about the quiet disasters of adult life. His baritone became one of the most recognisable sounds in contemporary music. Now, with his second solo album, he's doing something a little looser, a little stranger, and just as compelling. Get Sunk (Book/Concord Records) was born in a Connecticut barn - lyrics scrawled on baseballs, dust-covered objects rearranged into surreal compositions, a man making sense of his own creative life far from the machinery of a major band. Produced with Grammy-winning engineer Sean O'Brien and shaped by collaborators including Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Kyle Resnick (The National, Beirut) and the legendary Booker T. Jones, it's a record that sits in that rare space between longing and relief - the blurry picture brought as close into focus as it needs to be. Matt Berninger plays The Princess Theatre for Open Season. For anyone who's ever felt deeply seen by a song.