Death Cab for Cutie | Asphalt Meadows (LP)

Anticipated new album from platinum-selling indie greats Death Cab for Cutie coming late this summer!

8x GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie return today with “Roman Candles,” the first track off their highly-anticipated tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows. The new track from the indie rock veterans – now in their 25th year as a band – arrives with an official lyric video designed by Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace) – watch here.

As with the forthcoming album in its entirety, “Roman Candles” was produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Wallows).

Of the inspiration for the song, the band shares: “‘Roman Candles’ is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet. And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go.” The track was born from co-founder, lead vocalist, and guitarist Benjamin Gibbard’s determination to create something succinct, loud, and strikingly direct. He shares: “The lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic.”

Tracklist

A1        I Don't Know How I Survive
A2        Roman Candles
A3        Asphalt Meadows
A4        Rand McNally
A5        Here To Forever
A6        Foxglove Through The Clearcut
B1        Pepper
B2        I Miss Strangers
B3        Wheat Like Waves
B4        Fragments From The Decade
B5        I'll Never Give Up On You

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: Barsuk Records
Rel. Date: 09/16/2022
UPC: 655173120613

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• Released: 09/16/2022
• Format Detail: LP 180g [w/ download card]
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Genre: Alternative
• Format: Vinyl