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Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard: ‘Painting yourself as the aggrieved narrator... you’ve got to grow out of it’

INTERVIEW: Across a career built on lyrical introspection, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has rarely shied away from emotional candour. The indie rocker speaks to Annabel Nugent about growing up, resisting the safety of nostalgia – and why he doesn’t like the term ‘divorce album’

The Independent UK

“I just don't like chords – I don't like playing them. Music is much more interesting when everybody plays a harmonic line that creates a wider picture”: How Death Cab for Cutie found their second act – by embracing the weird, and guitars from their past

Ben Gibbard developed the songs for their sharp and confident new album I Built You a Tower like he did in the indie icons' earliest days, power trio style – but he and guitarist Dave Depper have never been more in lockstep

Guitar World

Fans of '00s Death Cab for Cutie take note: Their new album is about grief — and it's for you

Death Cab for Cutie are gearing up to release a new album titled “I Built You a Tower.”

The Independent UK

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“I wrote the song in about 15 minutes, then I went home because I realized there was no point in working the rest of the day”: The quickly-written Death Cab for Cutie masterpiece that became a generational meditation on loss

I Will Follow You into the Dark would shatter millions of millennial hearts, eventually becoming Death Cab's biggest song

MusicRadar

“People Are Such Animals!”: 82 Unresolved Personal Mysteries People Doubt They’ll Ever Solve

What are the odds?

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Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service review, All Points East: Heaven for thirtysomething nostalgia-heads

The two favourite bands of every proto-softboi in 2003 preached to the converted at London’s Victoria Park

The Independent UK

Postal Service performs the best of Ben Gibbard’s Riot Fest sets

Lively performance improves upon the sleepy Death Cab for Cutie set just hours earlier.

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6 Musical Guests You Frothed On Hard After They Appeared On The OC

Including Death Cab for Cutie and The Killers.

Pedestrian.tv

Every Death Cab for Cutie album ranked from worst to best

Since their formation in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie have released 10 studio albums. Here's how they rank in order of greatness

Louder

Death Cab for Cutie talks hometown shows, new album 'Asphalt Meadows' and Seattle Mariners

SEATTLE — A lot has changed over the course of the pandemic, and with live events suspended for a time, some musicians were forced to take up 9-to-5s. The members of Death Cab for Cutie weren't exactly pushing paper while touring was on ice, but the Seattle indie rock kings…

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