Watch the New Death Cab for Cutie Video, “Black Sun”
Death Cab for Cutie will release their new album Kintsugi on March 31, but to entertain us until then is a video for its lead single, “Black Sun.”
The action-packed affair is directed by Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard and features one poor fella getting struck repeatedly by a car for the sake of art. His beautiful female co-star, meanwhile, refuses to give him the time of day.
Yup, life can be that unfair.
“This is an opportunity for the band to become something it could only become by losing a founding member,” said Gibbard earlier this year about Kintsugi. “It’s our goal to make records that rank amongst the best work we’ve ever done. I completely respect and understand why people love Transatlanticism or We Have the Facts… or Narrow Stairs. And I would hope that as we move forward, people listen with as little prejudice as they can and try to hear the music for what it is and not what they want it to be.”
You can watch “Black Sun” right here:
Tour Dates:
04/10 – Mesa, AZ @ Quail Run Park
04/23 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland ^
04/24 – Tulsa, OK @ Brady Theatre
04/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre ^
04/29 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium ^
04/30 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre ^
05/01 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre ^
05/02 – Minneapolis, MN @ Northrop Auditorium ^
05/04 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
05/07 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre for the Performing Arts ^
05/08 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre ^
05/09 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre ^
05/12 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater ^
05/13 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
06/08 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06/09 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06/10 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06/12 – Aarhus, DK @ NorthSide Festival
06/13 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
06/14 – Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest
06/15 – Stockholm, SE @ Munchenbryggeriet
06/17 – Zurich, CH @ X-Tra Hotel
06/19-21 – Neuhausen, DE @ Southside Festival
06/19-21 – Scheessel, DE @ Hurricane Festival
06.20 – Tillburg, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival
06/23 – Zagreb, CH @ inMusic Festival
06/25 – Paris, FR @ Bataclan
06/26 – Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
06/27 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Open Source Festival
07/08 – Portland, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield %
07/09 – Bend, OR @ Les Schwab Amphitheatre %
07/11 – Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre Berkeley %
07/12 – Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *
07/15 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rock Amphitheatre *
09/11 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion &
09/12 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden &
09/13 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion &
10/03 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
10/04 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
10/05 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
^ = w/ The Antlers
% = w/ Built to Spill
* = w/ tUnE-yArDs
& = w/ Explosions in the Sky
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