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Listen: The National’s Matt Berninger Guests On New Walter Martin Zoo Song
Hear Matt Berninger sing about being a jaguar”, a “grizzly bear” and “an octopus”. “

Matt Berninger has lent a starring role to a new track from The Walkmen co-founder/multi-instrumentalist Walter Martin. ‘We Like the Zoo (‘Cause We’re Animals Too)’ features on Martin’s ‘We’re All Young Together’ album, out 13th May in the US on Family Jukebox.
A playful doozy containing pig oinks and duck quacks, it’s an innocent charmer enhanced by the fact that Matt Berninger steps in midway through to sing the lines: ‘I’m an antelope / And I’m a billy goat / And I’m a porcupine / And I’m a crocodile / And I’m an octopus / And I’m a platypus / And I’m a jaguar / And I’m a grizzly bear.’
To be fair, that kind of prose isn’t dissimilar to the kind of stuff Berninger might come out with after having ‘All The Wine’. Listen below.
Walter Martin, ‘We Like the Zoo (‘Cause We’re Animals Too)’ (ft. Matt Berninger):
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