Death Cab for Cutie

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• Death Cab for Cutie, 'I Built You a Tower' Album Review | Paste
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• Death Cab for Cutie : I Built You a Tower | Treble | June 17, 2026, 11:45 p.m.
The indie heroes ease back on the bombastic approach and return to their signature sound

• I Built You A Tower by Death Cab For Cutie - Resident Music | www.resident-music.com
Eleven albums in and the Bellingham quintet feel like they’re just getting started. There’s a fresh injection of vitality, of melodic invention, of emotional resonance, and even a sense of playfulness to this latest outing from Ben Gibbard’s main musical squeeze. I Built You A Tower is a welcome return to Death Cab’s indie roots. It’s a personal statement with universal themes. It’s just what we’ve been hankering for. And the design of this edition has involved a real hands-on approach from the band. All aspects, from the tie-dye vinyl to the slipmat and art print, have been 100% artist led, making this the essential version of an essential record.Death Cab for Cutie is one of the definitive indie-rock bands of the century.After twenty-odd years in the major label system, the band returned to their indie roots and signed with ANTI- Records and they're back with their brand-new eleventh album. I Built You A Tower is the sound of loss, compartmentalization, and then grief bursting out from the sea

• Death Cab for Cutie: New Album Out Now | Rock Cellar Magazine | June 5, 2026, 2 p.m.
Death Cab for Cutie's new album 'I Built You A Tower' is out now, ahead of a busy year of touring for the band.

• Review: Death Cab for Cutie – I Built You a Tower (2026) | commfailure | June 17, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
Death Cab for Cutie’s album “I Built You a Tower” explores middle age, grief, and acceptance, showcasing their matured sound and lyrical depth.

• Ben Gibbard's long way home | bestfitmusic.substack.com
Three decades into a celebrated career, the Death Cab for Cutie songwriter has abandoned the role of the aggrieved narrator and found a new acceptance of his past and the band's legacy.

• SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - I BUILT YOU A TOWER | The Spill Magazine | June 5, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I BUILT YOU A TOWER ANTI- RECORDS Indie rock veterans Death Cab for Cutie are back, more than 20 years removed from their iconic Transatlanticism release and are settling into the latter half of their career with I Built You a Tower, the band’s first release with ANTI- Records. The record […]

• ALBUM REVIEW: “I Built You A Tower” by Death Cab For Cutie | Heavy and Weird | June 16, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Lately, with the utmost of plain sighted secrecy, I haven’t been feeling okay emotionally. One could describe it as a dark night of the soul but my distaste towards the performative politics of pai…

• Death Cab for Cutie: I Built You a Tower | Spectrum Culture | June 1, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
I Built You a Tower is one of the most personally exposed records Death Cab have made, but its impact will depend on the listener’s patience for sadness that no longer feels young.

• Death Cab for Cutie Is Still Climbing | RANGE | June 5, 2026, 1 p.m.
The indie rock stalwarts’ latest LP explores grief, rumination, and futile self-pep talks.

• REVIEW: Death Cab for Cutie tears down silos on 'I Built You a Tower' | RIFF | RIFF Magazine | May 30, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
Death Cab for Cutie reunites with producer John Congleton for its 11th album, one of the band's best records yet.

• Album Review: Death Cab for Cute - I Built You a Tower | New Noise Magazine
Death Cab for Cutie's 11th studio album, 'I Built You a Tower,' is the band's best work yet: emotive, soulful and incredibly effective.

• Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard Talks Band's Legacy | Rolling Stone Australia | June 11, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard joins this week's 'Rolling Stone Uncut' podcast to talk about their new album, 'I Built You a Tower'.

• Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie's I Built You a Tower | lorrenlemmons.substack.com
Sad girl summer is alive and well

• 'I Built You A Tower' review: Death Cab for Cutie's new-old era | InBetweenDrafts | June 8, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Death Cab’s 11th album, 'I Built You A Tower,' is a grown-up divorce record where Ben Gibbard forgives and the guitars do the raging.

• Death Cab For Cutie on divorce, holding it together, and ‘I Built You A Tower’: “One of the most powerful things to say is, ‘You’re not alone’” | NME | June 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard on how divorce and therapy shaped ‘I Built You A Tower’, leaving major label life and the doom facing younger generations

• ALBUM REVIEW: Death Cab For Cutie - ‘I Built You A Tower’ | The Soundboard | June 8, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
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• Death Cab For Cutie – I Built You A Tower review | No Ripcord | June 8, 2026, 6 a.m.
Forged in the furnaces of nostalgia of despair, I Built You A Tower is Death Cab’s strongest record in two decades and a powerful return to form.

• BBC Radio 6 Music - Huw Stephens, Death Cab for Cutie | BBC
Ben Gibbard from Death Cab joins Huw to discuss the band's new album I Built You a Tower.

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