"Meet Me At The Equinox": Death Cab For Cutie Lands 'New Moon' Single
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Well, surprise, surprise. Last year was Paramore's turn on the spotlight when, after releasing two songs on the Twilightsoundtrack, they were catapulted from emo-indie obscurity to wider fame. Maybe this year it's Death Cab for Cutie's turn.
I'm going to be a music snob for a bit and say I hope it doesn't make DCFC that big. Then again, they've managed for the longest time, being one of the more known bands on the indie circuit, releasing numerous albums, and finding their songs used on shows such as The OC and Six Feet Under. But with the New Moon soundtrack heading in a more indie direction, thanks in part to Stephenie Meyer's deeper involvement, the band finds themselves on the verge of being introduced to a much, much, much wider audience with "Meet Me At The Equinox", the leading single off the soundtrack, whose music video will debut on September 13 at the MTV website.
"We didn't expect it to be chosen for the first single," the band's bassist, Nick Harmer, told MTV News. "We were thinking it would be a part of the soundtrack, maybe. I have no idea if [Meyer] approved it or what."
"It's been an exciting process, because we've been so removed from it," he added. "We were in [Los Angeles] for a week and we went into the studio and ... recorded the song and submitted it. We didn't know where anything stood, and then we just got a call last week, like, 'Guess what? Your song has been chosen as the first single.'"
Hearing news that DCFC grabbed that first single was, at first, a little weird for me. With the indie direction, the New Moon soundtrack is starting to be pretty surprising, considering that indie stalwart Bon Iver and Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke are at work on songs, too. While they can whip out songs about love and heartbreak, it just doesn't fit right, initially.
In DCFC's case, it's also an unusual combination, with Harmer admitting that only guitarist Chris Walla has read the Twilight books. "The big connection for us is, here's a wildly popular book series about vampires--which are awesome--set in the Northwest, and we happen to be from the Northwest as well," Harmer said. "There's this sort of hometown pride kind of thing going on." (The band hails from Bellingham, and the books are set in Forks. Washington state, yep.)
"I think that a lot of our songs in general concern a lot of the things the main characters in the books are going through," he continued. "There's a lot of stuff about relationships beginning and ending, and the questioning that happens around being in love and falling out of love. That's a comfort zone for us, so a lot of the lyrical content Ben [Gibbard, the band's vocalist] writes also happens to line up with what the characters are going through in the film ... So it wasn't difficult for us at all."
Not really difficult, it seems--even if Gibbard hasn't read the books, which means he hasn't written from any of the characters' perspectives, he still nailed the song's essence. "The emotional stuff is what he homed in on, because that's what we do," Harmer said. "It's an uptempo song ... it fits right into the Death Cab canon. The lyrics are darker and brooding, the music is a little more up. I don't know if it's a rock song, [but] when you hear it, you think, 'yep, that is a Death Cab song.'"
Being an indie kid who's loved DCFC songs from somewhere in the beginning, I'm actually excited, and perhaps wary at the same time. Can't blame me. The New Moon soundtrack hits stores on October 20, but expect a complete tracklisting within the coming weeks.
Now, I'll listen to Narrow Stairs again and sing about stalkers...
Well, surprise, surprise. Last year was Paramore's turn on the spotlight when, after releasing two songs on the Twilightsoundtrack, they were catapulted from emo-indie obscurity to wider fame. Maybe this year it's Death Cab for Cutie's turn.
I'm going to be a music snob for a bit and say I hope it doesn't make DCFC that big. Then again, they've managed for the longest time, being one of the more known bands on the indie circuit, releasing numerous albums, and finding their songs used on shows such as The OC and Six Feet Under. But with the New Moon soundtrack heading in a more indie direction, thanks in part to Stephenie Meyer's deeper involvement, the band finds themselves on the verge of being introduced to a much, much, much wider audience with "Meet Me At The Equinox", the leading single off the soundtrack, whose music video will debut on September 13 at the MTV website.
"We didn't expect it to be chosen for the first single," the band's bassist, Nick Harmer, told MTV News. "We were thinking it would be a part of the soundtrack, maybe. I have no idea if [Meyer] approved it or what."
"It's been an exciting process, because we've been so removed from it," he added. "We were in [Los Angeles] for a week and we went into the studio and ... recorded the song and submitted it. We didn't know where anything stood, and then we just got a call last week, like, 'Guess what? Your song has been chosen as the first single.'"
Hearing news that DCFC grabbed that first single was, at first, a little weird for me. With the indie direction, the New Moon soundtrack is starting to be pretty surprising, considering that indie stalwart Bon Iver and Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke are at work on songs, too. While they can whip out songs about love and heartbreak, it just doesn't fit right, initially.
In DCFC's case, it's also an unusual combination, with Harmer admitting that only guitarist Chris Walla has read the Twilight books. "The big connection for us is, here's a wildly popular book series about vampires--which are awesome--set in the Northwest, and we happen to be from the Northwest as well," Harmer said. "There's this sort of hometown pride kind of thing going on." (The band hails from Bellingham, and the books are set in Forks. Washington state, yep.)
"I think that a lot of our songs in general concern a lot of the things the main characters in the books are going through," he continued. "There's a lot of stuff about relationships beginning and ending, and the questioning that happens around being in love and falling out of love. That's a comfort zone for us, so a lot of the lyrical content Ben [Gibbard, the band's vocalist] writes also happens to line up with what the characters are going through in the film ... So it wasn't difficult for us at all."
Not really difficult, it seems--even if Gibbard hasn't read the books, which means he hasn't written from any of the characters' perspectives, he still nailed the song's essence. "The emotional stuff is what he homed in on, because that's what we do," Harmer said. "It's an uptempo song ... it fits right into the Death Cab canon. The lyrics are darker and brooding, the music is a little more up. I don't know if it's a rock song, [but] when you hear it, you think, 'yep, that is a Death Cab song.'"
Being an indie kid who's loved DCFC songs from somewhere in the beginning, I'm actually excited, and perhaps wary at the same time. Can't blame me. The New Moon soundtrack hits stores on October 20, but expect a complete tracklisting within the coming weeks.
Now, I'll listen to Narrow Stairs again and sing about stalkers...
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