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Death Cab is a militantly analog band. We’ll continue moving forward with our sound, but there will be no crossover.

Ben Gibbard

I’m starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There’s a darkness inside of me that I’m only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it’s starting to scare me.
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Darkness Early Inside Material
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of ‘Plans’ came out of samples and vocal lines.
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Lines Piano Writing
I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.
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Attempts Clever Older Record The Phrase
I don’t think Chris realized he was in a band until 2001. He all of a sudden woke up one day and realized he was in a band. He thought he was just recording my solo project. Three albums later, we’re in Baltimore trying to figure out what to do with ourselves.
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Album Project Realized Sudden Think
I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
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Kind Song Thinking
I don’t hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal.
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Descriptive Life Literal Now Undeniable
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It’s more important than anyone else could ever be.
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Girlfriend People Upset
There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a “nice studio.” We were at the point where we were young and irreverent.
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Expensive Irreverent Nice Youth
I don’t think I was doing anything poorly at that time, but I can certainly see how my writing has changed.
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Certainly Changed Think
A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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Disappointment Moving People
I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn’t get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don’t even want.
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Finding Growth Jobs Yourself
I just rediscovered my guitar.
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Guitar Life Rediscover
I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.
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Narrative Sometimes Thinking
I don’t want to be overdramatic about it, but I’m starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.
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Habit Starting Want
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There’s something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
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Group Musical Song
You remember that stuff and laugh about it now. You don’t feel it the way you did back then when you were so scared and nervous and tired and hungry.
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Back Hungry Laugh Nervous Remember Tired

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