ATLANTIC Records’ Death Cab for Cutie has officially announced the release of their upcoming ninth studio album that arrives on Friday, August 17.
‘Thank You for Today’ was produced and mixed by Rich Costey (Fiona Apple, Franz Ferdinand, Muse), who also produced the band’s last album, the Grammy-nominated ‘Kintsu-gi’.
This marks the first Death Cab for Cutie release to see long time bandmates Benjamin Gibbard, Nick Harmer, and Jason McGerr joined in the studio by new members Dave Depper (Menomena, Fruit Bats, Corin Tucker, Ray Lamontagne) and Zac Rae (My Brightest Diamond, Fiona Apple, Lana Del Rey, Gnarls Barkley). Depper and Rae have both been part of Death Cab’s touring band since 2015.
The highly anticipated new album was first teased in May with the release of a short clip on the band’s social channels. The new pre-order and single release arrives on the heels of another teaser unveiled last week, again featuring a track from the album.
Meanwhile, Death Cab for Cutie are currently poised to embark on a limited series of sold-out international summer live dates. After that they will arrive in Dublin where they will play The Olympia Theatre on Thursday, January 24.
Death Cab for Cutie was born in 1997 when Western Washington University engineering student and budding guitarist-songwriter Benjamin Gibbard first united with guitarist-keyboardist-producer Chris Walla and bassist Nick Harmer to record a demo cassette.
Though Gibbard had initially conceived the tape as a solo project, the eight-song cassette proved both popular and aesthetically successful, prompting him to reconfigure Death Cab for Cutie as a full band.
They then made their official live debut on November 22 that same year.
Immediately hailed as one of indie rock’s most compelling and creative collectives, Death Cab for Cutie’s milestone debut album, ‘Something About Airplanes’ landed in 1998 via the Seattle-based independent label, Barsuk. The band enjoyed a long relationship with Barsuk before making their Atlantic Record debut with 2005’s fifth studio release, ‘Plans’.
The album proved the band’s popular breakthrough, earning platinum certification as well as spawning the chart-topping singles, ‘Soul Meets Body’ and ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’.
