Death Cab For Cutie Frontman Benjamin Gibbard Announces 'Former Lives' European Release Date
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard has announced that his debut solo record ‘Former Lives’ will get a European release on November 12th.
After fifteen years in indie-rock outfit Death Cab for Cutie, Benjamin Gibbard didn’t make his first solo album in search of a new beginning; instead, it closes a door. “These songs span eight years, three relationships, living in two different places, drinking and then not drinking,” he says of the dozen tracks that comprise ‘Former Lives’. “They’re a side story, not a new chapter.”
The first track from ‘Former Lives’ to make it’s way online, ‘Teardrop Windows’, is about Seattle’s Smith Tower. It began as an unabashed attempt to, in Benjamin’s words, “write a Big Star inspired song,” but quickly morphed into something else entirely. The Smith, built in 1914, was once the jewel of the Seattle skyline but has since been forced out of the frame by the iconic Space Needle and other taller or otherwise attention-grabbing structures. “To me, it represents the things we take for granted when something newer, bigger and flashier comes into our lives,” Benjamin explains.
You can check out ‘Teardrop Windows’ embedded below, while you’ll find the tracklist below.
‘Former Lives’ tracklist:
1. Shepherd’s Bush Lullaby
2. Dream Song
3. Teardrop Windows
4. Bigger Than Love
5. Lily
6. Something’s Rattling (Cowpoke)
7. Duncan, Where Have You Gone?
8. Oh, Woe
9. A Hard One To Know
10. Lady Adelaide
11. Broken Yolk In Western Sky
12. I’m Building A Fire
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