Death Cab for Cutie Announces 11th Album and Tour

Death Cab for Cutie announced on Wednesday the release of their eleventh studio album, titled I Built You a Tower, set for June 5 via ANTI Records. The album marks the indie rock band's first project with the independent label after two decades and six albums with Atlantic Records. Accompanying the announcement, the group unveiled the lead single "Riptides," along with a music video directed by Jason Lester.

The 11-track album follows the band's 2022 release, Asphalt Meadows, and represents their first full-length effort in four years. Recorded over three weeks with veteran producer John Congleton at his Los Angeles studio, Animal Rites, the sessions also incorporated home recordings from band members' locations in Seattle, Bellingham, Los Angeles, and Portland. Bassist Nick Harmer described the process as reconnecting with the band's early ethos. "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?" Harmer said. "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're working on, that's...