EL VY is Brent Knopf and Matt Berninger Photo: Deirdre O'Callaghan
While juggling the demands of parenting, touring, recording, and making films with his brother, The National frontman Matt Berninger has also managed to start another band. Though, he explains EL VY has been many years in the making. Beginning as a few emails between him and Brent Knopf (Menomena), the pair gradually sent snippets of music wherever in the world they were, or more precisely, wherever in the world The National were touring.
Return To The Moon is the result of Berninger and Knopf's lengthy and intermittent collaboration. The full-length album is a music homage to Berninger's hometown of Cincinnati and the semi-fictional characters of his youth.
On the line from NYC he talks to Yadana Saw about some of the unlikely inspirations for the side project that has been "the best thing for the health of The National".
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