Death Cab For Cutie

Death Cab For Cutie has announced the release of their much-anticipated eighth studio album. Kintsugi arrives everywhere on March 31st via Atlantic Records. "Black Sun" will be the collection's lead single and it will hit Alternative Radio on January 26th. This album follows 2011's GRAMMY(r) Award-nominated Codes And Keys and it marks Death Cab for Cutie's first new album since the departure last year of founding member, Chris Walla. Kintsugi was recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Interpol) behind the board. It takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum, highlighting cracks rather than hiding them. As such, kintsugi represents a compassionate aesthetic philosophy in which damage and wear are embraced as part of an object's history.

"Considering what we were going through internally, and with what a lot of the lyrics are about, it had a great deal of resonance for us - the idea of figuring out how to repair breaks and make them a thing of beauty," says bassist Nick Harmer, who suggested the name to singer/guitarist Ben Gibbard and drummer Jason McGerr. "Philosophically, spiritually, emotionally, it seems perfect for this group of songs."

For nearly two decades, Death Cab For Cutie has been hailed as one of contemporary music's most compelling and creative collectives. Formed in Washington in 1997, the band followed a long relationship with the Seattle-based independent label, Barsuk, by making their Atlantic Records debut with their fifth studio release, 2005's Plans. The album proved Death Cab For Cutie's popular breakthrough, earning RIAA platinum certification as well as spawning the chart-topping singles, "Soul Meets Body" and "I Will Follow You Into The Dark."

Now fully affirmed as an era-defining band, Death Cab for Cutie made a stunning #1 debut atop the SoundScan/Billboard 200 with 2008's RIAA gold certified Narrow Stars More critical acclaim and two further GRAMMY(r) nominations followed, including nods for "Best Alternative Album" and "Best Rock Song" (honoring the hit single, "I Will Possess Your Heart"). The Open Door EP was released in 2009, earning DCfC a third consecutive GRAMMY(r) Award nomination for "Best Alternative Album." Codes And Keys arrived in 2011 and made a top 3 entry on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 before receiving the band's fourth straight GRAMMY(r) nomination for "Best Alternative Music Album."

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