{"id":101667,"date":"2026-03-16T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=101667"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:41:48","slug":"death-cab-for-cutie-i-built-you-a-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/death-cab-for-cutie-i-built-you-a-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab for Cutie Announce New Album and UK Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The influential indie rock group\u00a0<strong>Death Cab for Cutie<\/strong> has announced that\u00a0their 11th album will be released this summer. It&#8217;s called <i>&#8216;I Built You A Tower&#8217;<\/i> and will be released on June 5th via <b>ANTI- Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded across Seattle, Bellingham, Los Angeles<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">, and Portland,\u00a0<em>&#8216;I Built You A Tower&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0follows tours in which\u00a0<strong>Death Cab for Cutie<\/strong> celebrated<\/span>\u00a020 years of two sentimental albums, <i>&#8216;Transatlanticism&#8217;<\/i> and <i>&#8216;Plans&#8217;<\/i>. It sparked the band to somewhat return to their roots.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe anniversary tours exorcised any nostalgia in our systems,\u201d<\/i> explains guitarist\/keyboardist Dave Depper. Bassist Nicholas Harmer expands on this by sharing, <i>\u201cWe 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? The whole experience of this record got us back to the earliest versions of this band: If the musicians in the room like what we\u2019re working on, that\u2019s enough. We reconnected with the confidence that comes with that.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the record is joined by the release of a track called <i>&#8216;Riptides&#8217;<\/i>. With its underpinned, opening groove, the track givesway to a vibrant indie rock conclusion. Lyrically, it sees vocalist\/guitarist Benjamin Gibbard wrestle with weight of the world, as he contemplates internal and external struggles.<i>&#8220;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,&#8221;<\/i> states Gibbard.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <b>Death Cab for Cutie<\/b> will be returning to the UK in September for a run of headline dates. Full details below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ah-infobox\" style=\"max-width: 80%; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\"><style>.ah-infobox p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }<\/style><p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101664\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower album artwork\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-I-Built-You-A-Tower.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. Full of Stars<br \/>\n2. Punching The Flowers<br \/>\n3. Pep Talk<br \/>\n4. I Built You A Tower (a)<br \/>\n5. Envy The Birds<br \/>\n6. Stone Over Water<br \/>\n7. How Heavenly a State<br \/>\n8. Trap Door<br \/>\n9. Riptides<br \/>\n10. The Flavor of Metal<br \/>\n11. I Built You A Tower (b)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YhruCF_beiA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ah-infobox\" style=\"max-width: 80%; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\"><style>.ah-infobox p:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }<\/style><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101665\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour-640x800.webp\" alt=\"Death Cab For Cutie 2026 UK Tour\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour-640x800.webp 640w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour-768x960.webp 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour-1229x1536.webp 1229w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-2026-UK-Tour.webp 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>September<br \/>\n19th O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester<br \/>\n20th Corn Exchange, Edinburgh<br \/>\n21st The Glasshouse, Gateshead<br \/>\n23rd The Prospect Building, Bristol<br \/>\n25th Troxy, London<\/p>\n<p>Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 20th at 10am<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indie rockers will release their 11th album in June before returning to the UK in September. 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