Band Death Cab For Cutie has announced a new album and shared its lead single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their 11th studio album, I Built You a Tower<\/em>, will be released on June 5. It’s their first album in four years. The record was inspired in part by the 20th anniversaries of Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism<\/em> and Give Up<\/em>, by Ben Gibbard’s side project, The Postal Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “‘I Built You A Tower’ is an album about loss and the ways by which we attempt, ultimately unsuccessfully, to compartmentalize grief,” the band said in a Facebook post<\/a> announcing the album. “We compartmentalize because we need to keep ourselves together to do our jobs, raise our families, etc. But the structures we build within ourselves to hold our grief at bay are only so strong. Eventually, the grief spills over and we are forced to face it. And sometimes it is more than we can bear.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n