Death Cab for Cutie heeft een nieuw album aangekondigd getiteld: Thank You for Today. Het album is het negende studioalbum van de band en is opgenomen in Los Angeles met producer Rich Costey eind 2017 en begin 2018. Over het album zegt gitarist Ben Gibbard het volgende: “I realized early on in the process that I wanted to write a record that is very much who we are. I wanted to go more inward, and create something more personal.”
In nummers als; Gold Rush, Northern Lights en You Moved Away reflecteert Gibbard over zijn geboortestad en hoe moeilijk het kan zijn om je vast te houden aan plaatsen en personen. Gibbard schreef de nummers voor het album en had daar het volgende over te zeggen: “at one point I had written so much I thought we might have two records, but we wanted it to be concise enough that you can listen all the way through and then want to put it on again immediately.”
Over de titel van het album zei Harmer het volgende: “We started saying it to each other every day, no matter what kind of day it had been. “Whether it had been frustrating or a really great day, we’d all shake each other’s hands and say ‘Thank you for today.’ As time went on, it really started to mean something to us. It’s almost like a Rorschach test, in that it’s an oddly adaptable statement. And when we were thinking about what to call the album, it just seemed to fit so perfectly.”
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