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Listen: The National’s, Matt Berninger’s new collaboration – “El VY”

EL VY is the musical collaboration between Matt Berninger (The National) and Portland musician and producer Brent Knopf (Ramona Falls, Menomena).

The debut EL VY album is called Return To The Moon, and will be out this fall, which includes a stop-off at Whelan’s in Dublin on 13 December.

El VY is the name of the band is intended to be a plural of ‘Elvis’ and is pronounced to rhyme with ‘hell pie’

El VY is a project the pair have been thinking about for almost a decade since they first became friends, and during the winter and spring of ’14-15 they were finally able to find time to make it a reality.

Listen to Return To The Moon title track below:

EL VY - Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with Crescendo) (Lyric Video)

 

Tickets for El VY ‘s show at Whelan’s on 13 December go on sale this Friday, 7 August at 9am.