A girl travels the world while Death Cab For Cutie rock out in a freezer for over eight minutes in “I Will Posses Your Heart.” It’s a pretty ominous song for these guys, at least until Ben Gibbard shows up just over halfway through to remind us who we’re listening to. More »
Following up on the “Chris Walla’s hard drive got confiscated at the border” story: the Department of Homeland Security said that the drive didn’t have the necessary paperwork to come back into the country, and that any insinuations of there being a political element to the drive’s seizure were incorrect; the confusion seems to have stemmed over whether or not the drive’s contents were actually a commercial product or not. Walla–who actually now has the files to finish the album, which comes out next year–shot an e-mail to The Daily Swarm explaining things more fully, including a quirk about what was and wasn’t confiscated from the courier who tried to bring his stuff across the border:
If nothing else, it makes for a better excuse than “my hard drive got magnetized”: Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla’s long-in-the-works solo album is probably going to be delayed even more thanks to the hard drive containing all its master tracks being seized by the Department of Homeland Security at the U.S.-Canada border. The album has the working title Field Manual, and according to Walla, it’s “very political,” with songs about Hurricane Katrina and morning-after pills and artwork that is based on Army training manuals from the ’30s and ’40s.
