HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Death Cab for Cutie have announced that they will release their new album, "Narrow Stairs," on May 13.
The new album will be the band's second release with Atlantic Records, following their successful 2005 debut with the label, "Plans," which received a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.
The 11-track set will be "a sampling of the most uptempo, upbeat Death Cab songs as well as some of our saddest," bassist Nick Harmer previously revealed to Billboard.com.
Formed in Bellingham, Wash. in 1997, Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of frontman Ben Gibbard while he was the guitar player for the band Pinwheel. At the time, he was recording under the name All-Time Quarterback.
Guitarist Chris Walla described the new material as "really weird."
"It's really, really good, I think, but it's totally a curve ball, and I think it's gonna be a really polarizing record. But I'm really excited about it," he told Billboard.
"It's really got some teeth," Walla continued. "The landscape of the thing is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records."
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