Death Cab For Cutie have announced details of their tenth studio album, ‘Asphalt Meadows’ – listen to first single ‘Roman Candles’ below.The follow-up to 2018’s ‘Thank You For Today’ will be released on September 10 via Atlantic.
The band’s last release came in the form of ‘The Georgia EP’, a collection of five covers which came out in 2020 via Bandcamp and was later made available on streaming platforms.
A newly remastered 35-track reissue of their LP ‘The Photo Album’ also arrived last year.“‘Roman Candles’ is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet.
And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go,” the band say of the album’s first single.Frontman Ben Gibbard adds: “The lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic.”Watch the ‘Roman Candles’ lyric video, pre-order ‘Asphalt Meadows’ here and see its artwork (shot by Gibbard) below.Speaking to NME in March 2021, Gibbard explained that his then-new signature Fender Mustang guitar had been inspiring Death Cab’s next LP.“We’ve got a lot of songs and I’m really happy with the material,” he said. “I’m sure a lot of musicians say that their new material is the best thing they’ve ever done and try to hype it up.
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