A new video has been up on the Death Cab For Cutie official website revealing to visitors to the site that a new album is currently in production and will be released in May of this year. It has been up there for the past month or so but I was completely unaware until earlier this week but now that I do know - it’s without doubt the one album I’m most anticipating this year. Death Cab’s previous 2 albums, 2003’s ‘Transatlanticism‘ and 2005’s ‘Plans‘ were probably two finest albums of their career thus far.
The teaser video mentions 3 cities (Seattle, Portland and San Francisco) in which they’ve recorded the album in 3 seperate studios and also mentions ‘44 Days‘ (am unsure what this means as the album is still somewhat in production, according to Chris Walla anyways). And has a fantastic, unknown though unmistakable Death Cab backing-track running through it (with guitars, pianos and drums - none of Ben’s vocals however). And it finishes on a Ben Gibbard sound-bite: “I just don’t feel like we really have anything to prove of it other than to ourselves and to making a record we really enjoy.”
The title of the new album (their 7th studio album!!) is reported to be ‘Narrow Stairs’ which was revealed in this month’s copy of Spin Magazine (January 2008).
The teaser video (as I’ve described above) for the new album (as shown on the official website) has been “YouTubed” as can be watched below:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I found your site on google blog search and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Just added your RSS feed to my feed reader. Look forward to reading more from you.
- Randy Nichols.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Thanks Randy.
Still very much a newbie in this blogging stuff but I’ll keep updating as long as people keep reading!