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Just roll with it twitch9/21/2023 Setting up shop at Seattle’s Avast! Recording Co. But when we started doing promo, we started playing an acoustic version of that song and it really brought out the depth of the songwriting, beneath the production.” People loved it or hated it, but it definitely got them paying attention to the record. “That song was intentionally picked as the most extreme sonic example of what we were doing with the new record to throw people for a loop and get them to pay attention. “The seeds of the album were first planted around when the first single from the record, ‘Roman Candles,’ came out,” Death Cab guitarist/ keyboardist Dave Depper-who joined the group in 2016-adds, while checking in from his home in Portland, Ore. Death Cab recently wrapped up a series of winter dates in support of the John Congleton-produced Asphalt Meadows, which spawned several Adult Alternative Airplay singles and earned the group critical praise, thanks to the tunes’ more experimental tendencies. So to have acoustic versions of these songs helps place the music in some playlists that they would not necessarily qualify for in their original form.”Īs he walks through the unexpected twists that led to Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic), the Seattle-based Gibbard is driving through Tacoma, Wash., to see his friend Steve Fisk, with whom he created an original score for a 2008 film, Kurt Cobain: About a Son. In 2023, the music industry is partially about ‘gaming’ algorithms on streaming platforms. “We were asked by our label to record acoustic versions of some of Asphalt Meadows’ singles. ![]() ![]() “The project started from a slight position of obligation,” admits frontman Ben Gibbard. But then, what could have easily been a forgotten press exercise turned into much more-a completely rerecorded, acoustic version of Asphalt Meadows that serves as its own entry in the emo-tinged indie-rock group’s already rich catalog. Death Cab for Cutie were gearing up to release Asphalt Meadows, their 10th full-length studio album, and were tasked with reworking some of their highly produced, electric new music for a stripped-down setting. At first, it seemed like any other slightly mundane promo opportunity.
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