DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE – I Built You A Tower Vinyl

Description

Written and recorded in a concentrated burst of sessions with producer John Congleton, primarily at his Animal Rites studio in Los Angeles alongside additional home recordings, the album captures a band working with renewed immediacy and clarity. At its heart, “I Built You A Tower” explores themes of emotional compartmentalization, grief, and resilience. Frontman Ben Gibbard has described the album’s central metaphor – the “tower” – as a way of containing loss and trauma, while acknowledging how those buried emotions inevitably resurface.

To be released June 5, 2026

Tracklist:

Full of Stars
Punching the Flowers
Pep Talk
I Built You A Tower (a)
Envy the Birds
Stone Over Water
How Heavenly a State
Trap Door
Riptides
The Flavor of Metal
I Built You A Tower (b)