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A decade after their stripped-back debut, the band’s second NPR session places I Built You a Tower material beside early catalog favorites, with Ben Gibbard noting how the years have shifted around them.
The new album finds the band stripping decisions back to a single question: does it work in the room?
On “Punching the Flowers,” Death Cab for Cutie return with a song that feels wiry, compressed, and quietly brutal, turning emotional inertia into a piece of indie rock that moves with real pressure. Released on April 27 as the second single from I Built You A Tower, the track suggests a record more interested in friction than comfort.
Ahead of their ANTI- Records debut ‘I Built You A Tower’, the band pulls a jagged, restless second track that talks about the cost of retreating into the familiar.
