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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
releases highly-anticipated
tenth studio album
ASPHALT MEADOWS

AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE TODAY

BUY/STREAM HERE

WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK
“ASPHALT MEADOWS” HERE

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Photo Credit: Jimmy Fontaine

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“Twenty-five years into its career, the band brings its incisive, anguished writing to a particularly 2022 brand of existential angst on its 10th album, ‘Asphalt Meadows’… ‘These nights, I don’t know how I survive,’ Ben Gibbard repeats on the first track, howling over a distorted gnarl of guitar. It’s a tidy thesis statement for an expansive album…” – THE NEW YORK TIMES

“If you haven’t heard yet, Death Cab for Cutie is back back. The long-running rock band looks to be readying its best album in over a decade… which splits the difference between a return to the grandiose form of 2000’s The Photo Album + 2003’s Transatlanticism and new territory.” – VULTURE

“[Gibbard]’s openness to possibility is on full display throughout Asphalt Meadows, the surprising new album from his band Death Cab for Cutie (and their tenth since 1998) that finds the indie mainstays navigating a terrain of exciting new sounds.” – STEREOGUM

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8x GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie have released their highly-anticipated tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows on Atlantic Records – available across all DSPs and at physical retailers now. Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Wallows), the LP has already earned tremendous advance critical acclaim, including from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Vulture, all of whom highlighted the album in their 2022 fall previews. Vulture also lauded spoken-word track “Foxglove Through The Clearcut” as one of “The Best Songs of 2022 (So Far)” and UK music outlet NME declared, “10 albums and 25 years into their career, the Washington indie veterans come back mature and assured but loaded with that early melodic magic.”

Of Asphalt Meadows, the band shares: “The day that for so long felt so far away is finally here. Our new album is out, and we could not be more relieved and thankful. We made it. We found our way through a very dark time and have arrived with a record that is a reflection of everything we’ve done and everything still to come. We hope you love Asphalt Meadows as much as we do – it belongs to you now. We can’t wait to see you at all the shows ahead. As always, thank you for listening.”

The band last week made the broadcast debut of title track “Asphalt Meadows” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (watch here) and played previously-released songs “Roman Candles” and “Foxglove Through The Clearcut”, along with the classic “A Movie Script Ending”, as an online exclusive for the show.

“Asphalt Meadows” is accompanied by a striking lyric video – also out today – designed by frequent visual collaborator Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace). Watch HERE.

Last week, all five band members hosted a ‘Live From Home’ livestream performance – highlights included a cover of R.E.M.’s “Near Wild Heaven” and the stripped-down debut of album track “Pepper” – within lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard’s Seattle-based studio, raising funds for reproductive rights nonprofit, The Brigid Alliance (donate here).

On Friday 9th September the band unveiled a one-of-a-kind listening experience for then-unreleased “Rand McNally”, which has been available for exclusive, in-person listening all week (via geotagged map) anywhere the band has played throughout their storied 25-year career. Fans were able to unlock the song at over 800 locations across the globe, ranging from The Pacer House in Bellingham, WA to New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden to Tokyo’s Astro Hall.

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ASPHALT MEADOWS:

I Don’t Know How I Survive
Roman Candles
Asphalt Meadows
Rand McNally
Here to Forever
Foxglove Through The Clearcut
Pepper
I Miss Strangers
Wheat Like Waves
Fragments From The Decade
I’ll Never Give Up On You

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Photo – Jimmy Fontaine

About DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE:

Death Cab for Cutie’s ninth studio album Thank You for Today was released in 2018. That album saw the band entering its second decade by both expanding and refining its signature sound, with highlights including lead single, “Gold Rush,” which reached #1 on Billboard’s “Adult Alternative Songs” chart.

The band continued to affirm their lasting artistic legacy with a wide range of creative activity in the years that followed, including diverse collaborations such as Chance the Rapper’s 2019 album track, “Do You Remember (ft. Death Cab for Cutie),” and Tycho & Gibbard’s acclaimed 2021 single, “Only Love.”

Gibbard presented a series of “Live From Home” livestreams throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, helping raise over $250K in donations and supplies for various Seattle-area relief organizations. The livestreams – which showcased songs from Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service and his solo material, along with covers and other surprises – drew over 4.5 million total views as well as high profile media attention from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Variety, NPR, and Stereogum, the latter of which pondered, “Is Ben Gibbard going to single-handedly get us all through quarantine?”

December 2020 saw Death Cab for Cutie release The Georgia EP, initially offered as a 24-hour Bandcamp exclusive in advance of the crucial Georgia runoff elections that ultimately turned the state blue and secured Democratic control of the US Senate. The five-song project – which features covers of iconic artists from the great state of Georgia – raised over $100K for Fair Fight Action, the national voting rights organization founded by Stacy Abrams to promote fair elections around the country through voter education, election reform, and combating voter suppression. “Fair Fight is grateful for the support of Death Cab for Cutie in our fight for free and fair elections in Georgia and nationwide,” Abrams said later. “The Georgia EP helps tell the story of Georgia just as their contributions have helped us write the next chapter.”

In February of this year, Gibbard conceived, curated, and executive produced Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, an acclaimed tribute to the groundbreaking singer, songwriter, multimedia artist, and activist released in celebration of her 89th birthday. The collection – which includes Death Cab for Cutie’s own cover of “Waiting For The Sunrise” – also features contributions from a stunning range of diverse artists, including David Byrne, Japanese Breakfast, The Flaming Lips, and Sharon Van Etten. Ocean Child earned worldwide critical acclaim spanning The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Guardian and more.

Formed in Bellingham, WA 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 certifiedTransatlanticism, 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” while spawning the chart-topping singles, “Soul Meets Body” and “I Will Follow You into the Dark,” the latter of which was honored with a GRAMMY® nod for “Best Pop Performance By Duo Or Group With Vocals.” Their following albums – including Narrow Stairs (2008), The Open Door (2009), Codes and Keys (2011), and Kintsugi (2015) – all received various GRAMMY® Award nominations, bringing their total career nominations to eight overall.

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AMNPLIFY – DB