Death Cab For Cutie announce new album ‘Kintsugi’

Following last year’s departure of Chris Walla, Death Cab For Cutie’s founding guitarist and principal songwriter, the Washington band have announced their follow-up record ‘Kintsugi’, due for release on 30th March.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, bassist Nick Harmer revealed the symbolism behind the title. Kintsugi is “a Japanese style of art where they take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold. It’s making the repair of an object a visual part of its history. That resonated with us as a philosophy, and it connected to a lot of what we were going through, both professionally and personally.”

The band also revealed their hopes for the record – namely, that it will be held up alongside their greatest works, rather than tarred by the departure of Walla. “I completely respect and understand why people love ‘Transatlanticism’ or ‘We Have the Facts…’ or ‘Narrow Stairs’,” clarified iconic frontman Ben Gibbard, “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.”

Read the full interview here and check out the tracklisting below.

1. No Room in Frame
2. Black Sun
3. The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
4. Little Wanderer
5. You’ve Haunted Me All My Life
6. Hold No Guns
7. Everything’s a Ceiling
8. Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)
9. El Dorado
10. Ingénue
11. Binary Sea