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.”
- Vinyl: Black
- 180 Gram
- Genre: Alternative, Rock, Indie Rock
Tracks
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
