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We have a couple of fun updates on New Moon soundtrack artists, Death Cab for Cutie. Last night the band’s episode of ‘Storytellers’ aired on VH1 and they even played on song that made it onto one of Stephenie Meyer’s infamous playlists, ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’. In addition, NPR currently has the band’s newest album, Codes and Keys, available to stream before it’s released on May 31st.
“One day, I went to work, had my lunch all packed, because I bring my own lunch, and I sat down to attempt to write a song,” he says during the intro. “I wrote this next song in about 15 minutes and I kinda took my lunch and put it back in my bag and went home because I realized there was no point in working the rest of the day.
“When people ask me about this song, I never feel like I can claim that I wrote it because you should never be able to write a song in 15 minutes, because I feel like I channeled the song but I didn’t necessarily write it. Thankfully, I was able to put my name on it.”
While Narrow Stairs looks at what motivates wayward souls — whether in the faded stardom of “Cath…” or the heartbreaking surrender reflected in “Your New Twin-Sized Bed” — Codes and Keys feels a bit subtler in its intentions. Sure, it includes “Some Boys,” one of Gibbard’s patented treatises on the ways other boys can be so uncouth (a trope he’d do well to abandon), but Codes and Keys is consistently lovely, thoughtful and agreeable anyway.
It’s also a true grower: Not only does Codes and Keys gain richness and depth with each exposure, but it also gets better as it rolls along. The slowly blooming epic at its center (“Unobstructed Views”) is no “Transatlanticism,” but it’s gorgeous, and it initiates a remarkably strong second half, headlined by what sound like surefire summer singles in “Monday Morning” and “Underneath the Sycamore.”
Seven full-length albums into its career, Death Cab for Cutie continues to grow up and evolve alongside the audience who came of age with it in the last decade. Stay tuned for its members’ catchy and heartfelt ruminations on the soul-deadening malaise of middle age, due out in 2017 or so.
Listen to Codes and Keys on NPR here
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