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Death Cab for Cutie — Kintsugi

Death Cab for Cutie — Kintsugi (March 31, 2015)

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φ   Gibbard's distinctive voice and unique lyrical style.
φ   “I need you so much closer” — it’s perhaps the most famous Death Cab lyric, the “Transatlanticism” refrain that’s held out eight times in a row, four times in a row, until it’s just a thirsty whisper. It’s the title track on the band’s most well-known and beloved album, and in Williamsburg, 12 years after it was released, Gibbard sung it over and over again. He leaned forward as his hair drooped over his face, stopping just above his nose.
φ   “The kid who fell in love with ‘Transatlantcism,’ we can’t recreate that moment for them,” Gibbard had said in Atlantic’s studio. “But I want to make something that reminds people who have been fans for a long time what they love about the band. If we were trying to be relevant we would be making music that sounds like Animal Collective. It doesn’t matter if it’s relevant to what Pitchfork is writing about. It matters about what’s relevant in their lives. To me that’s the goal.”
φ   One of the definitive indie bands of the 2000s, led by Ben Gibbard, whose wistful vocals and sensitive songwriting straddled indie and emo.
Location: Bellingham, Seattle, WA, USA
Album release: March 31, 2015
Record Label: Barsuk
Duration:     45:05
Tracks:
01 No Room in Frame     4:05
02 Black Sun     4:49
03 The Ghosts of Beverly Drive     4:03
04 Little Wanderer     4:18
05 You've Haunted Me All My Life     4:07
06 Hold No Guns     3:03
07 Everything's a Ceiling     3:40
08 Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)     4:46
09 El Dorado     3:39
10 Ingenue     4:30
11 Binary Sea     4:05
2015 Atlantic Recording
Producer: Rich Costey
Current Members:
φ   Benjamin Gibbard — lead vocals, guitars, piano, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, drum machine (1997–present)
φ   Nick Harmer — bass, backing vocals, guitars, organ, keyboards (1997–present)
φ   Jason McGerr — drums, percussion (2003–present)
Awards:
φ   Billboard Singles
φ   2015  The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive  Rock Songs     #48
Band name:
φ   Gibbard took the band name from the song "Death Cab for Cutie" written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group the Bonzo Dog Doo–Dah Band. The song's name was in turn taken from an invented pulp fiction crime magazine The Uses of Literacy, devised by Richard Hoggart as part of his 1957 study of working class culture. In a 2011 interview, Gibbard stated, “The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on. So yeah, I would absolutely go back and give it a more obvious name.”
REVIEW
STEPHEN THOMPSON, NPR Music, MARCH 22, 201511:06 PM ET
φ   If Death Cab for Cutie‘s 17–year career has focused on a single overarching theme, it’s the process of growing up: fumbling for connection, finding oneself, feeling out the ways human beings do and don’t settle into their own skin. On a string of marvelous records that span the ’00s, and perhaps most famously on 2003’s Transatlanticism, singer Ben Gibbard has told a thoughtfully worded coming–of–age story, soundtracked by the liltingly sweet, impeccably constructed pop–rock sounds of multi–instrumentalist/producer Chris Walla, bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Jason McGerr.
φ   But bands can only credibly sing of youth in the present tense for so long. So for Death Cab for Cutie, all those big emotions of early adulthood — the inflated meaning of tiny gestures, the hunger of long–distance longing — have naturally given way to more muted and nuanced songs about the many rebuilding processes of early middle age. These are guys who’ve seen firsthand that adulthood can mean divorce and drifting apart; in fact, most pressingly for their professional future, Walla himself decided to leave the group last year.
φ   Though this is the first Death Cab record Walla didn’t produce, he does perform on Kintsugi, the band’s eighth album. That title is telling: It refers to the Japanese art of fixing fragmented ceramics with precious metals, giving broken art more value than it had when it was whole. Which, in turn, speaks to a sensible shift in Death Cab For Cutie’s perspective. Self–discovery has given way to self–repair, in ways that stay true to the voices involved and bode well for the band’s future, even without Walla.
φ   Compared to its predecessors, Kintsugi feels sparer and simpler, with a muted quality to match song titles like “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life” and “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive.” It’s also very clearly a breakup record, chronicling with a fair amount of specificity the dissolution of Gibbard’s marriage to Zooey Deschanel. The story he chooses to tell is one of a relationship tarred by her stardom (“Was I in your way when the cameras turned to face you? / No room in frame for two”), and by the frustrations of a Los Angeles he’s never embraced.
φ   That said, these songs — and songs in general, really — work best when they aren’t contextualized in too much literal detail. Kintsugi is better viewed as an album about drifting apart, by a band trying to hold itself together, and that’s far more universal than any given Hollywood love story gone wrong. As softly tuneful as ever, Death Cab For Cutie chronicles the glum immediate aftermath of survival. What comes next, most likely, is the blush of renewal that follows so many doldrums of mid–stage adulthood. After all, as long as we’re alive, we never really stop coming of age, and Death Cab For Cutie’s members know that. It’s nice to have them along for the ride.
φ   http://www.npr.org/
Website: http://deathcabforcutie.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dcfc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deathcabforcutie
Also:
BY PHILIP COSORESON MARCH 27, 2015, 5:01AM; SCORE: C-
φ   http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/album-review-death-cab-for-cutie-kintsugi/
Jessica Goodman Posted: 03/27/2015 9:00 am EDT
φ   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/death-cab-for-cutie-kintsugi_n_6948674.html
Studio albums:
φ   You Can Play These Songs With Chords      (1997)
φ   Something About Airplanes      (1998)
φ   We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes      (2000)
φ   The Photo Album      (2001)
φ   Transatlanticism      (2003)
φ   Plans      (2005)
φ   Narrow Stairs      (2008)
φ   Codes and Keys      (2011)
φ   Kintsugi      (2015)
Pic: Death Cab for Cutie performing "Transatlanticism" on their Codes and Keys European tour, at Manchester Academy on July 4, 2011. Left to right: Harmer, McGerr, Gibbard, Walla.
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