Death Cab for Cutie Return With New Album Kintsugi

Death Cab for Cutie have announced their first studio album since the departure of founding member Chris Walla. It’s called Kintsugi, and it’s out March 31 via Atlantic. That’s the cover above; you can check out the tracklist below. Walla contributed to the album before leaving, and he also inspired the title: Kintsugi is a style of Japanese art where broken ceramics are fixed using resin that’s been mixed with precious metals. 

“In the West, if you break an heirloom, you either throw it away or you make the repair as invisible as possible,” bassist Nick Harmer told Rolling Stone. “But there’s this artistic movement in Japan where the repair of it, the damage of it, is more important as part of the history of something than repairing it to its original state.”

Ben Gibbard added, “This is an opportunity for the band to become something it could only become by losing a founding member. It’s our goal to make records that rank amongst the best work we’ve ever done. I completely respect and understand why people love Transatlanticism or We Have the Facts… or Narrow Stairs. And I would hope that as we move forward, people listen with as little prejudice as they can and try to hear the music for what it is and not what they want it to be.” 

Kintsugi:

01 No Room in Frame
02 Black Sun
03 The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
04 Little Wanderer
05 You’ve Haunted Me All My Life
06 Hold No Guns
07 Everything’s a Ceiling
08 Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)
09 El Dorado
10 Ingénue
11 Binary Sea

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