VIA PRESS RELEASE | Today, 8x GRAMMY® Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie releases new track “Foxglove Through The Clearcut.” Featuring meditative instrumentation and moving spoken word elements that ultimately crescendo into a sweeping outro, the song arrives accompanied by a striking lyric video designed by frequent visual collaborator Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace).
Of “Foxglove Through The Clearcut,” lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard shares: “Foxglove is by far the most personal song on the record. While I was writing it, I thought I was merely the narrator. But the longer I sat with it, I realized I was both the protagonist AND the narrator.”
Today’s new song follows “Here to Forever,” which was the most-added song at AAA and Alternative radio upon its release in mid-July. Currently, the single sits at #2 at AAA radio and has already quickly risen to #13 at Alternative. The track has also amassed tremendous critical acclaim, with Stereogum hailing it: “a grand and stirring rocker, one that mixes the soft-eyed sensitivity of the band’s early days with their arena-sized major-label work.”
The first song to be released off the album, “Roman Candles,” arrived with a (quite literally) explosive one-take music video directed by Lance Bangs (Sonic Youth, Nirvana). That track was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered, with host Bob Boilen highlighting its “two bursting minutes.” All three songs are lifted off the band’s highly-anticipated tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows, due out September 16th. Pre-orders are available here.
Last month, Death Cab for Cutie made the television debut of “Here to Forever” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with a performance that was praised as “high-energy” by Rolling Stone. The band also appeared on CBS Saturday Morning, performing “Here to Forever,” “Roman Candles,” and “Fake Frowns,” a favorite cut from their 1998 debut, Something About Airplanes.
