Death Cab For Cutie Go The Extra Mile (And Then Some) With Eight-Minute 'I Will Possess Your Heart' Video
In a lot of slipway, "I Volition Possess Your Heart" is very much to a greater extent than the first base single from Death Cabriolet For Cutie's much-discussed newly record album, Specialise Stairs. It's too the perfective sonic instance of everything the bandmembers have said they were nisus to do on the album — hissy, warts-and-all, "oops the mike fell bolt down, just let's maintain pealing" one-take indie stone that bundles up everything they've done in the past and tosses it into Lake Washington.
Oh yea, and it's eight-and-a-half minutes long, overly. Understandably, the ring Seth Cohen fawned over completely those long time ago on "The O.C." is antediluvian history.
"There's a lot of moments on the record book ... where something is, like, ne'er the thing you would choose," said Decease Cab guitarist/producer Chris Walla. "But now that it's there, it's the matter that you would miss whole if it was gone.
"The to the highest degree perfect tense model of that is in 'I Will Own Your Heart' — in the beginning in that location seems to be this gumption of everybody searching a little bit to find where the song is," added frontman Ben Gibbard. "There's just about notes that form of float through that, if we were trying to [disk] this track-by-track and make up it altogether perfect, would've never made the recording. Merely as soon as they all form of fit together, it made perfect tense sense. That's the reason the song is allowed to be as long as it is. It's sort of lento pull the focus in on the melodic line, and by the time it's at long last moving, the vocal kicks in and the narrative starts and ..."
"It takes us pentad proceedings to get to the point where we're playing the saame song, basically," Walla finished.
And that meandering flavour is alive and well end-to-end both Steps (slated for release on Whitethorn 13) and the video for "Heart," which premiered Friday (April 11) and features the red-headed object of Gibbard's affections roving the world — Jack London, Paris, Tokio, among others — for no apparent reason in particular. Meanwhile, Death Cab execute in what appears to be a meat cabinet.
It's a little arty and a little over-the-top and, yes, it's about club proceedings long, although both the band and their label, Atlantic Ocean Records, say that a shorter edition of both the song and the clip will premiere soon. And that's just the way DCFC intended it to be.
"By the clip we came back together to commence working on this album, in that location wasn't the sense that, 'We are sledding to get a conscious decision to have a curveball to everyone world Health Organization liked Plans.' " Gibbard said. "It was barely that these were the songs we felt the near inspired by that I had written. At the time it simply made sense that 'I Testament Own Your Heart' should be, like, 10 transactions long.
"That said, if the number one ace away our record book is sledding to be that long, distinctly there's going to be a wireless blue-pencil because we're playing the game," he continued. "We want citizenry to hear the song, and if it takes people hearing the three-minute variation to get to the eight-and-a-half-minute version, that's very well."
So far, fan reaction to "Heart" is overpoweringly positive, though more or less are focusing on Gibbard's lyrics, which, to be fair, explore a far creepier territory than his previous work. Once again, that's hardly division of the plan.
"Committal to writing songs of unrequited dearest and 'stalker-type tunes' isn't precisely breakage new ground or anything like that, simply with 'Heart' I experience like it's the sentiments that make it so creepy," Gibbard said. "And this is a act of fiction — it's non something I'm guilty of, hopefully — merely to me the storyteller in the strain doesn't see anything legal injury with what he or she is doing. It's to a greater extent, 'I exactly befall to walk by your house entirely the clip and I recall how great it would be if I were inwardly your house look out at the world.'
"What makes it so unsettling is that single party doesn't understand that what's happening is non set aside. And they may have pure intentions, merely the way it comes off is non the case at altogether."
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