The National’s Matt Berninger has released Type It Up, a new EP collected from material worked over during the Get Sunk tour. The five-track digital set follows last year’s Get Sunk and includes the title track, recent single “Martini Me Fatso,” new song “Ask for Water,” and covers of New Order’s “Blue Monday” and the Velvet Underground’s “Who Loves the Sun,” the latter featuring Rosanne Cash.
Berninger frames the EP as a byproduct of nightly revision rather than a separate studio statement. “These songs came out of the momentum and energy of the Get Sunk tour,” he said. “I was changing lyrics and forms
