Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie was originally a solo project of now lead singer Ben Gibbard. Today it also features Chris Walla on guitar, Nick Harmer on bass, and Jason McGerr on drums. The band started in 1997 and has released six albums since that time. They have been relatively stable, apart from the drummer position. In just over a decade as a band, they have gone through three drummers.
Ben formed the concept for Death Cab for Cutie while he was a guitarist for the band Pinwheel. He produced a demo called You Can Play These Songs with Chords. This demo garnered enough attention that Ben decided to make it into a full time project. The first release of the actual band came in 1998 by the name Something About Airplanes. The music found a home in the indie rock scene, and for several years Death Cab remained something of an indie band.
That changed when tracks from their fourth album Transatlanticism were picked up and used by Hollywood. Their songs were most notably picked up as the intro to The O.C., but were also featured on shows like CSI: Miami and the movie The Wedding Crashers. This brought the band into the national eye and set the stage for their breakout album Plans.
Plans became the band’s bestselling album within the first month of sales, and quickly went platinum in the United States. It featured such singles as “Soul Meets Body” and “Crooked Teeth”. It had a run of nearly a year on the billboard top albums list, and topped out at #4 on the list. Singles from the album were heavily played on radio stations across the country. Death Cab has been recalcitrant to playing large venue shows, and has avoided the typical overexposure that follows a breakout album.
Their latest album Narrow Stairs continues in the vein started by Plans and has sold well since its release. It hit number one on the billboard charts and spent 32 weeks there. It has not yet outsold Plans as an album, but projections show that it likely will. It features the top downloaded songs for Death Cab on iTunes. Singles from the album include “Grapevine Fires” and “I Will Possess Your Heart”. The second is the top selling single by the band, while the first is in the top five.

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