Following the release of their new album ‘I Built You A Tower’, indie-rock titans Death Cab For Cutie are heading out on tour in the UK this September.
Earlier this summer, Death Cab For Cutie unveiled their reconciliatory new record ‘I Built You A Tower’ via ANTI- Records, marking a return to their independent roots. The album received acclaim from Pitchfork, Record Collector, Rolling Stone, Classic Rock and more, with the latter describing it as a “career peak.” Now, Death Cab are taking their eleventh studio LP out on the road, with a run of dates across the UK this September.
Kicking things off at O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester, the eight-time GRAMMY nominated band will make stops at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, The Glasshouse in Gateshead, and The Prospect Building in Bristol. The tour also includes two nights at Art Deco venue Troxy in London, before coming to a close on the seafront at the iconic De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
These performances come on the heels of a historic, sold-out global tour in marking the 20th anniversary of ‘Transatlanticism’ plus their universally acclaimed 10th studio effort, 2022’s ‘Asphalt Meadows’. This time, Death Cab will be joined on the road by Floridian math-rockers Pool Kids, who provide support across all UK dates.
‘I Built You A Tower’ is an album of reconciling with past selves in order to locate a new future. “The anniversary tours exorcised any nostalgia in our systems,” Depper observes. “We felt part of this powerful force greater than all of us and went into the studio with a sense of, how can we capture that feeling and put it into something new?” Harmer continues, “The whole experience of this record got us back to the earliest versions of this band: If the musicians in the room like what we’re working on, that’s enough. We reconnected with the confidence that comes with that.” As such, this is not the dreaded “return to form” narrative, but a reclamation of a core ethos that has run through Death Cab’s 30-year history.
In recent years, Death Cab celebrated several historic milestones, including massive sold-out tours celebrating the 20th anniversaries of seminal releases ‘Transatlanticism’ and ‘Plans’. Those tours were pivotal to the creation of ‘I Built You A Tower’, as behind the scenes, Gibbard weathered the greatest pressure of his professional life — fronting both Death Cab and the Postal Service on arena stages for hours a night — while struggling with the collapse of his personal life in the background. The strain felt too much for one person to bear, and the “tower” originated as a way to protect himself. “There’s this need to find a place in ourselves to put loss and grief,” he explains. “A place that can hold it so we can move on with our lives. But there are these moments where the trauma breaks out of that shell we created for it.”
UK Live Dates:
19th September – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
20th September – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
21st September – The Glasshouse, Gateshead
23rd September – The Prospect Building, Bristol
25th September – Troxy, London
26th September – Troxy, London
27th September – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Tickets available HERE.
