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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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The Importance of Directives in Trans Allenasism

Translancism is an amazing record. And you've said that it was the best working environment, maybe of all the records that the band recorded in the first sort of first eight records. So I felt that I still feel to this day is that those cards are not necessarily great directives in and of themselves, but they're actually misdirectives. They take you off of the path you were on and allow you to ruminate about something else for at least a short period of time,. which kind of clears your head and allows you to hopefully see whatever's in front of you a little bit differently.

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