Gold Rush is about realizing Ive placed a. But there’s this artistic movement in Japan where the repair of it, the damage of it, is more important as part of the history of something than repairing it to its original state. Death Cab for Cuties Ben Gibbard is no stranger when it comes. In the West, if you break an heirloom, you either throw it away or you make the repair as invisible as possible. That resonated with us as a philosophy, and it connected to a lot of what we were going through, both professionally and personally. ![]() ![]() It’s making the repair of an object a visual part of its history. a Japanese style of art where they take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold. In a Rolling Stone interview on Jan 12, 2015, bassist Nick Harmer explains the title: The album title, Kintsugi refers to a type of Japanese art that involves fixing broken pottery with gold, and the philosophy of treating breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. During the production of the album, lead guitarist and founding member Chris Walla announced that he was leaving the band, though he continued contributing to the recording and creative process as a full member until the album’s completion. At least now, people don’t have to ask me where the fucking name came from every interview.The album was released on 31 March 2015. “So yeah, I would absolutely go back and give it a more obvious name. Gold Rush is a song by American indie pop band Death Cab for Cutie, released as the lead single for their ninth studio album, Thank You for Today, on June 13, 2018. “The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on,” Gibbard replied. However, as the band ascended to greater popularity, Gibbard came to somewhat regret the name. The name was originally meant to obscure the fact that it was initially just Gibbard performing, akin to Dave Grohl choosing to release his solo recordings in the wake of Kurt Cobain’s death under the name ‘Foo Fighters’. The band is composed of Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper, and Zac Rae. Instead, avant-garde pop tricksters The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, who had ties to Monty Python and were friends with The Beatles, performed a parody of ’50s teenage car crash songs called ‘Death Cab for Cutie’ during a scene where the tour’s male patrons visited a strip club. Verse 1 Love of mine, someday you will die But Ill be close behind, Ill follow you into the dark No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the. Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The name in question might have been in a Beatles film, but the reference didn’t actually have to do with the Fab Four. “He made a grand proclamation from the couch at one point that if he ever had another band, he was going to call it Death Cab For Cutie.” “Ben was in a Magical Mystery Tour all-the-time kind of phase,” Walla recalled. Hanging out with producer friend Chris Walla, who would eventually join the band as a guitarist and keyboardist, Gibbard found a bootleg version of the film and became obsessed. One of those fanatics was Ben Gibbard, a young upstart musician from the Seattle area who was looking for a new moniker to release his more refined solo music under after creating the lo-fi project All-Time Quarterback. ![]() ![]() Poorly received in the UK and nearly impossible to view in the States while the band was a present tense entity, the Magical Mystery Tour film still rarely finds reference (or reverence) beyond the most dedicated of Beatles fanatics. Especially in America, the hour-long made for television film never saw much in the way of widespread distribution or cultural impact. In terms of “obscurity”, it’s hard to get more unsung than the Magical Mystery Tour film. It’s perhaps bizarre, then, that one of the most successful indie rock bands of the 21st century has been flaunting a Beatles reference right under our noses for over two decades.
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