Kintsugi (2015)

death cab for death cab
== Kintsugi: broken is better ==
wikipedia page for what the word "kintsugi" means
usually: filling the cracks of broken pottery with gold
"As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."
== Ben breaks up: ==
* Gibbard became engaged to actress and musician Zooey Deschanel in 2008 and married in September 2009
* Previous Death Cab album [Codes and Keys] released May 31, 2011
* They announced their separation on November 1, 2011, with Deschanel filing for divorce on December 27
* Kintsugi released March 31st 2015 (note: that's one day before April fool's day)
Public reaction (I had seen this somewhere back then, I thought in XKCD, hence I knew to google this):
* Nov 1st 2011 Pitchfork article on breakup
** two seemingly independent "sources" on the same day as the article seem to indicate that the Pitchfork article released the same day about their break up originally said "The next Death Cab album is lookin’ good already.” [source 1][source 2]. Wayback machine/internet archive does not have a copy of the article from that day, but their copy from two days later does not contain the line.
* OCt 3rd 2012 "Now, we get to sit on pins and needles until the next Death Cab album and hope a distraught Ben Gibbard has penned a Transatlanticism-level masterpiece"
== Breaking the band ==
chris walla leaves, is replaced by TWO new members [each of which can fill the hole that chris walla leaves behind in various ways]
== Breaking his arm ==
he was wearing a cast on his arm around the time the album released and he was going around giving interviews
== April Fools: ==
* 2008, an album by the band Velveteen was "leaked" as the new Death Cab album as an april fools prank, but (looking now) it seems that the band had nothing to do with the prank.
* 2008 Just Jazzin. Death Cab did their own April fool's prank in 2008 as well. They pretended to have a new jazz band in a short video. [source][source][source]
== My experience? ==
* this was first time i had to stop listening to a death cab album half way through out of disinterest
* at some point i did wonder if it was some kind of april fool's prank
== Non-comprehensive album comparison of Gibbardian title drops ==
== Song analysis ==
mostly "good help" and "binary sea". the rest of the songs seem to be examples of how to do a death cab song wrong. like the broken version of death cab
=== Good Help (Is So Hard to Find) ===
=== Binary Sea ===
in an interview, the writer said the last line of the song is"like a gun pointing at the head of the audience" [can i find a citation link to that?], which confirmed the impression i had on the first listen
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