Death Cab For Cutie Release "Black Sun" Video New

NEWS: Watch Death Cab For Cutie’s Video for Their New Song “Black Sun” + Album Release Date for ‘Kintsugi’

by • February 11, 2015

Death Cab For Cutie have released the best song of 2015 thus far. Yes, I said it.

Let’s talk about the video. A black car (Dodge Charger?) runs into the man over and over for an action scene being directed by DCFC lead singer, Ben Gibbard. The man is beaten, bruised, and seems exhausted. He checks his wounds in a mirror after a few rounds and shows clear pain in his eyes. He shows the same pain when he sees the beautiful woman on the set.

The video cuts to a the car running into the man for one final take, however, he seems to have given up all hope and doesn’t even brace for impact. The car crashes into him and his body soars into the air, smashing into the windshield, spider-shattering it, before bouncing back onto the ground. The crew immediately runs to his aid. The video cuts to the woman and there is a ever-slight hint of a smile on her face.

The interesting part is that the beautiful woman gets up too, but she doesn’t run. She casually walks over to the scene, passes the man being carried away, and gets into the car. She caresses the steering wheel as if she’s driven it before. She lets out a subtle smile. She enjoys being behind that wheel. Could this woman be a symbol of someone who enjoys emotionally beating people down? Someone who completely lacks empathy? Could this woman be Zooey and the man be Ben? It’s hard not to speculate that the song is written about lead singer Ben Gibbard’s divorce with Zooey Deschanel. What do you think?

Check out some of the lyrics:

there is hope within despair
and there is beauty in a failure

there is “Yours” and there is “Mine”

there is grace within forgiveness
but it’s so hard for me to find

How could something so fair be so cruel?

“Black Sun” is Death Cab For Cutie’s first single from their eighth studio album, Kintsugi, slated for release on March 31, 2015. The album title is derived from kintsugi, a type of Japanese art involving fixing broken pottery, and as a philosophy of treating breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Track listing:

1. “No Room in Frame” 4:05
2. “Black Sun” 4:49
3. “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” 4:04
4. “Little Wanderer” 4:19
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)” 4:47
9. “El Dorado”
10. “Ingénue”
11. “Binary Sea”

Death Cab For Cutie 2015 Tour Dates (No Florida Love) 🙁

04-10 Mesa, AZ – FestivALTAZ
04-23 Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
04-24 Tulsa, OK – Brady Theatre
04-27 Atlanta, GA – The Fox Theatre *
04-29 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium *
04-30-05-01 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre *
05-02 Minneapolis, MN – Carlson Family Stage at Northrop *
05-04 Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater *
05-05 Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
05-07 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre for the Performing Arts *
05-08 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis *
05-09 Portland, ME – State Theatre *
05-10 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
05-12 Louisville, KY – Iroquois Amphitheater *
05-13 St Louis, MO – The Pageant *
06-08-10 London, England – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06-12 Aarhus, Denmark – Northside Festival
06-13 Oslo, Norway – Rockerfeller
06-14 Bergen, Norway – Bergen Festival
06-15 Stockholm, Sweden – Müchenbryggeriet
06-17 Zurich, Switzerland – X-Tra Hotel
06-19-21 Neuhausen, Germany – Southside Festival
06-19-21 Scheessel, Germany – Hurricane Festival
06-20 Tilburg, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival
06-23 Zagreb, Croatia – INmusic Festival
06-25 Paris, France – Bataclan
06-26 Werchter, Belgium – Werchter Festival
06-27 Dusseldorf, Germany – Open Source Festival
07-08 Portland, OR – McMenamins Edgefield #
07-09 Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheatre #
07-11 Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre Berkeley #
07-12 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl !
07-15 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre !
09-11 Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion $
09-12 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden $
09-13 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion $
10-03 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
10-05 Seattle, WA         Paramount Theatre

* with the Antlers
# with Built to Spill
! with tUnE-yArDs
$ with Explosions in the Sky


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