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While promoting his new solo albumSerpentine Prison, Matt Berninger performed a rowdy cover of the Velvet Underground‘s “I’m Waiting for the Man” as part of his Tonight Showset. Now Berninger has released a studio version of the track, to appear on an upcoming Velvets covers compilation, I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Just like hisTonight Show version, Berninger takes a more far-out approach to Lou Reed‘s frenetic depiction of a heroin addict. Instead of banging piano keys, we get steady, stadium-rock drums combined with the sort of melancholic guitar you’d expect to find all over Berninger and the National‘s work.
Originally conceived of in 2017, theI’ll Be Your Mirror tribute album also features a cover of “Run Run Run” by Kurt Vile and the Violators, released earlier this month. Other contributors include Michael Stipe, Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett, King Princess, Courtney Barnett, Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney, and more. It was executive-produced by the late Hal Willnerand marks the last record Lou Reed’s old friend and producer worked on before hishis death in 2020.
Berninger releasedSerpentine Prison last October, and released I Am Easy to Findwith the National in 2019.
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