Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Kintsugi
Bitrate: 235kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Indie
Size: 80.79 megs
PlayTime: 0h 45min 10sec total
Rip Date: 2015-03-27
Store Date: 2015-03-27

Track List:
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01. No Room In Frame                 4:06
02. Black Sun                        4:49
03. The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive      4:04
04. Little Wanderer                  4:19
05. You've Haunted Me All My Life    4:08
06. Hold No Guns                     3:03
07. Everything's A Ceiling           3:41
08. Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)   4:47
09. El Dorado                        3:38
10. Ingenue                          4:31
11. Binary Sea                       4:04

Release Notes:
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Let’s get this straight: Kintsugi is a breakup album. It’s a particularly
fitting label to use once you learn the recent history of Death Cab for Cutie,
and therefore it becomes the talking point when appraising the Washingtonians’
eighth record. Because this is, of course, their first release since guitarist
and longtime producer Chris Walla departed the band last September after 17
years.

Oh, and there was also the small matter of bandleader and chief songwriter
Benjamin Gibbard’s much-publicised divorce from New Girl and 500 Days of Summer
star Zooey Deschanel, a subject that certainly took centre stage on his 2012
solo record Former Lives (which, rather incredibly, Deschanel guested on) and so
prominently informs the entire concept of the video for Kintsugi’s lead single
‘Black Sun’. But if you’re clued up on your Death Cab, then you’ll know that
heartbreak and separation are rather more general themes that tend to emerge
whenever Gibbard picks up his guitar: it’s a tactic that’s enabled them to
become the quote-unquote emo band it’s perfectly acceptable to like (‘I Will
Possess Your Heart’ is an absolute tour de force); the able companions and
musical soothers of the disaffected and dispirited for nigh-on two decades. And
Kintsugi looks set to continue that tradition through its name alone: evoking
both the Japanese method of mending pottery and a philosophy pertaining to the
notion that the breakage and repair of an object (or person. Or band) is a vital
part of its history, it’s a telling piece of symbolism that simply screams
catharsis.

