Death Cab For Cutie – klipdalok az Asphalt Meadows nagylemezről + Yoko Ono-tribute album

A szeptember 16-ra bejelentett Asphalt Meadows című tizedik Death Cab For Cutie-stúdióalbum az art-rock sztárproducer John Congletonnal készült, a klipjeit pedig a Jackass szériában is állandó közreműködő Lance Bangs veterán videorendező-operatőr (a Sleater-Kinney-frontcsaj Corin Tucker férje) forgatta.

A Roman Candles című szám múlt havi klipje után a Here To Forever című második beharangozó dal élőben már debütált a július eleji Death Cab For Cutie-koncerteken, de ma a stúdióverziója is megérkezett egy vicces videóval, melyben a frontember besegít a vírushelyzet után akadozó lemezgyártásba.

In every movie I watch from the fifties
There’s only one thought that swirls around my head now
And that’s that everyone there on the screen
Yeah, everyone there on the screen, well, they’re all dead now
They’re all dead now
And it ain’t easy living above
And I can’t help but keep falling in love with bones and ashes
With bones and ashes
And when the color is too bold and bright
I’m daydreaming in black and white until it passes
Until it passеs

I wanna know the measure from hеre to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure of God or whatever

Oh, these days it’s so hard to relax
You gotta hold a gun to my back to make me smile
To make me smile
And the only way I seem to cope
Is by trying to hold onto hope if just for a while
If just for a while

I wanna know the measure from here to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure of God or whatever
Now it seems more than ever, there’s no hands on the levers
And I wanna feel the pressure of God or whatever

Only rollers keep rolling
While the searchers keep scrolling

I wanna know the measure from here to forever
And I wanna feel the pressure of God or whatever
Now it seems more than ever, there’s no hands on the levers
And I wanna feel the pressure of God or whatever
Or whatever

it’s been a battle just to wake and greet the day
then they all disappear like sugar in my coffee
a hint of sweetness but the bitterness remains
the acidity devouring my body

but i am learning to let go
of everything i tried to hold
too long ‘cause they all explode
like roman candles

i used to feel everything like a flame
but now it’s a struggle just to feel anything
i watch the world from a window on a hill
everyone moving as i’m standing still

but i am learning to let go
of everything i tried to hold
too long ‘cause they all explode
like roman candles

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az új nagylemez borítója és számlistája:

Death Cab For Cutie: Asphalt Meadows (2022)

1. I Don’t Know How I Survive
2. Roman Candles
3. Asphalt Meadows
4. Rand McNally
5. Here To Forever
6. Foxglove Through The Clearcut
7. Pepper
8. I Miss Strangers
9. Wheat Like Waves
10. Fragments From The Decade
11. I’ll Never Give Up On

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ráadásként itt a DCFC-frontember Ben Gibbard által összeállított és 2022. február 18-án, Yoko Ono 89. születésnapján megjelentetett Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono című tribute album, melyre a Death Cab For Cutie mellett a Flaming Lips, a U.S. Girls, a Deerhoof, a We Are KING, a Japanese Breakfast, a Yo La Tengo, David Byrne, Sharon Van Etten, Amber Coffman, Jay Som és a Magnetic Fields-vezér Stephin Merritt is készített feldolgozásokat a japán művésznő szerzeményeiből:

1. Toyboat – Sharon Van Etten
2. Who Has Seen The Wind? – David Byrne & Yo La Tengo
3. Dogtown – Sudan Archives
4. Waiting For The Sunrise – Death Cab For Cutie
5. Yellow Girl (Stand For Life) – Thao
6. Born In A Prison – U.S. Girls
7. Growing Pain – Jay Som
8. Listen, The Snow Is Falling – Stephin Merritt
9. No No No – Deerhoof
10. Don’t Be Scared – We Are KING
11. Mrs. Lennon – The Flaming Lips
12. No One Sees Me Like You Do – Japanese Breakfast
13. There Is No Goodbye Between Us – Yo La Tengo
14. Run Run Run – Amber Coffman