The National frontman joined us to discuss his debut solo album, Serpentine Prison, and to answer your questions 5.10pm BST
These questions were great! So happy to answer whatever. Hope you like the record. I'm super into it! I've been playing it on repeat. When you ask what records I've been listening to non-stop, I took a long break from listening to Serpentine
prison because I was doing so much talking about it, but just in the past week I've got back into it. So I hope it connects. And thank you. 5.07pm BST
Bethniest asks:
Hi Matt! Cyrano was one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. Any chance those songs are going to come out as a record?
Yes. There's a film, a major motion picture being filmed right now, and I think they use about 12 songs in it. Not all the same songs that might have been in the stage production that happened last year - there have been a couple of different productions. It's been a five or six-year project. My wife Carin and I wrote 25 songs, Aaron and Bryce did all the
music. So yes, there will probably be an OST that has some of those songs in it sung by a cast of brilliant actors, and that's been an incredibly challenging but incredibly fun and wild experience of trying to make a musical. Carin and I just finished writing for it about two weeks ago. So we finally finished all the writing we're ever going to do on Cyrano. About half of what we wrote will be in the movie, I don't know what will happen to the other half.