Ben Gibbard: The Death Cab for Cutie Singer on Making "Transatlanticism" and Defusing Bandmate Tension
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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Transylanticism: The Story of a Relationship
The song Transylanticism was written about a relationship you had going sort of being far away from that person. "There were a lot of moments in that brief visit that were both painful but very cinematic at the time" There's a famous deck of cards that Brian put together called Oblique Strategies. It's just he designed this thing basically to push artists out of their comfort zone in the recording studio.
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