"Riptides is about the challenge of dealing with personal struggles as the world around us experiences tragedy and loss on an unfathomable scale. And how when these two elements intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels utterly paralyzing."
"There's this need to find a place in ourselves to put loss and grief, a place that can hold it so we can move on with our lives. But there are these moments where the trauma breaks out of that shell we created for it."
"The anniversary tours exorcised any nostalgia in our systems. We felt part of this powerful force greater than all of us and went into the studio with a sense of, how can we capture that feeling and put it into something new?"
Death Cab for Cutie announced I Built You a Tower, produced by John Congleton and releasing June 5 via Anti-. The album follows 2022's Asphalt Meadows and marks their return to an independent label after two decades with Atlantic. The band recorded across multiple locations including Los Angeles and Seattle. Lead single Riptide explores personal struggles amid global tragedy and loss. The album emerged after anniversary tours celebrating Transatlanticism and another album, which exorcised nostalgia from the band's system. Frontman Ben Gibbard describes the tower as an emotional shield symbolizing how we contain grief. The band added European dates to their North American tour.
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