DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - KINTSUGI

1 No Room in Frame
2 Black Sun
3 The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
4 Little Wanderer
5 You've Haunted Me All My Life
6 Hold No Guns
7 Everything's a Ceiling
8 Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)
9 El Dorado
10 Ingénue
11 Binary Sea

Kintsugi - which follows 2011's Grammy Award-nominated Codes And Keys - marks Death Cab for Cutie's first new album since the departure last year of founding guitarist/keyboardist/producer Chris Walla, who recorded the album with the band before announcing his departure. Recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Interpol) behind the board, the album takes it's title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum, highlighting cracks rather than hiding them. As such, kintsugi represents a compassionate aesthetic philosophy in which damage and wear are embraced as part of an object's history.