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Since then, the band helped define early 2000s indie rock with emotionally wrought lyrics built atop wit and melancholy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your age, Death Cab For Cutie might have been the soundtrack of your youth. And these tracks likely got you through the awkward chapter of high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe New Year\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death Cab For Cutie - The New Year (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSgHGFuPNus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An overarching theme of <em>Transatlanticism<\/em> is distance. While distance is a feeling, it\u2019s also something measurable, like time. \u201cThe New Year\u201d describes a sad New Year\u2019s Eve party. But the narrator doesn\u2019t feel any different at midnight. For many, the calendar flip offers a chance to start anew. And if everyone around you seems hopeful and you don\u2019t, then that\u2019s just another kind of remoteness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I wish the world was flat like the old days,<br>Then I could travel just by folding a map.<br>No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways,<br>There\u2019d be no distance that could hold us back<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cSoul Meets Body\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body (video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uizQVriWp8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The success of <em>Transatlanticism<\/em> led to a major-label deal with Atlantic Records. Death Cab For Cutie released <em>Plans<\/em> in 2005, and with its success, the indie band had fully entered the mainstream. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/death-cab-for-cutie\/soul-meets-body\">\u201cSoul Meets Body\u201d<\/a>, Gibbard sings searchingly about want, destination, hope. It feels like the other side of the sentiment in \u201cThe New Year\u201d. The Chris Walla-produced track propels forward. It\u2019s kinetic, empowering, optimistic. However, much anxiety remains in Gibbard\u2019s voice. All this talk about hope exists on tenuous circumstances. It could fall apart at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And I do believe it\u2019s true,<br>That there are roads left in both of our shoes.<br>But if the silence takes you, then I hope it takes me too<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cI Will Follow You Into The Dark\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iV_1ESMHaI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gibbard is known for writing emotionally vivid lyrics. 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