Beloved indie rock frontman Matt Berninger released his critically praised sophomore album ‘Get Sunk’ earlier this summer and today returned with the official video for meditative single “Nowhere Special” starring Matt’s real life brother Tom Berninger who quite literally steps into Matt’s shoes and his custom Tom Snyder suit.
Matt comments he hasn’t seen a performance as good as Tom Berninger’s since Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” music video and hasn’t seen directing as good as Chris Sgroi’s since Spike Jonze directed that same video, while Tom adds he got to keep the suit and wears it every day.
Fellow touring bandmate Ronboy aka Julia Laws makes a cameo and shares that when Matt asked her to take part in a video starring one of her favourite actors Tom Berninger, she knew she had to sharpen her silver screen chops, noting their sibling dynamic is as sincere and entertaining off screen as it is on.
Berninger worked on ‘Get Sunk’ with Grammy Award winning producer and engineer Sean O’Brien who also co wrote many of the songs, creating a rich sonic landscape with help from Meg Duffy from Hand Habits, Kyle Resnick from The National and Beirut, Garret Lang, Sterling Laws, Booker T Jones, Harrison Whitford, Mike Brewer and The Walkmen’s Walter Martin and Paul Maroon, mostly recorded together in a Silverlake basement studio.