Death Cab for Cutie (Photo by Jimmy Fontaine)
Death Cab for Cutie released Asphalt Meadows, the band’s 10th studio album, last week via Atlantic Records. The indie rockers return to DC for a show at The Anthem on Tuesday, Sept. 27!
Recently, 8x GRAMMY Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie released new track “Foxglove Through The Clearcut.” Featuring meditative instrumentation and moving spoken word elements that ultimately crescendo into a sweeping outro, the song arrives accompanied by a striking lyric video designed by frequent visual collaborator Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace).
Of “Foxglove Through The Clearcut,” lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard said “Foxglove is by far the most personal song on the record. While I was writing it, I thought I was merely the narrator. But the longer I sat with it, I realized I was both the protagonist AND the narrator.”
Watch the lyric video for “Foxglove Through The Clearcut” by Death Cab for Cutie on YouTube:
Formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie almost immediately entered the ranks of the era’s definitive bands, fueled in large part by the remarkable power of co-founder, vocalist, guitarist, and lead songwriter Benjamin Gibbard’s complex, often bittersweet songcraft. The band made their worldwide popular breakthrough with 2003’s RIAA gold-certified Transatlanticism, later named by NPR as one of “The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings.” Plans, their 2005 Atlantic Records debut release, saw Death Cab for Cutie ascending to even greater heights, earning RIAA platinum certification and a GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Alternative Album.”
Death Cab for Cutie
w/ Thao
The Anthem
Tuesday, Sept. 27
Doors @ 6:30pm
$55
All ages