Interview with Death Cab for Cutie

this band began as a solo project but
evolved into a grammy-nominated success
hi my name is Stephanie and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
to Death Cab for Cutie so could you
please introduce yourselves and tell me
what you do in the band and as well give
us a fun fact about yourself yes I am
jason mcgerr and I play drums in Death
Cab and a fun fact I played in a band
with Nick before Death Cab and actually
fired him as a bass player my name is
Chris and I play guitar in Death Cab for
Cutie and that band that Nick and Jason
were in that Jason fired Nick from
actually recorded that band at one point
or another well let’s talk a bit about
the musical evolution of Death Cab over
the years and how do you see you guys
have progressed I don’t know I mean in a
lot of ways it’s sort of hard to
quantify because we’re essentially still
a band that’s sort of based in drums and
bass guitar and two guitars and
sometimes some keyboards and Ben singing
so like the elements of it are identical
how that manifests itself from record to
record is really different and the core
ingredients are still the same but the
records have clearly changed I don’t
know I feel like the way we’ve changed
is maybe in a maturity way like in terms
of not being afraid to play a lot less
there was a time maybe when we were a
little more organized and scheduled and
tried to make things fit the way that
they were supposed to fit and especially
with codes and keys the newest record I
mean there was a lot more like just
trust in terms of letting things letting
things cook and develop and knowing that
we would eventually we’ll end up with
the record that we really wanted to make
and I think that two or three records
before that that that wouldn’t have been
of any possible a quarter record for us
we had to know what was gonna happen a
little bit more
let’s talk a bit about codes and keys
what’s the musical direction behind this
record coming from narrow stairs last
record where we basically just we did a
lot of just recording very much as we
play live like two guitars bass and
drums and we knew that we didn’t want to
do that again and I think that just
changing one element in the process like
putting guitars late in the process
rather than sort of is the foundation of
what we were building led us to a lot of
different places and a lot of different
instruments and a lot of different like
you know ways to try and build something
that you know it’s still identifiable as
us but isn’t necessarily routing and
strumming through you know just crashing
through the songs like we do on stage
and so I’d like to know what do you guys
love most about music and how do you
keep your passion alive for it
some people go to work and they want to
punch the clock and leave and not have
to deal with work but I have a really
hard time ever putting work down it
keeps me up many hours of the night and
that’s you know why I’m passionate about
it I guess I just fortunately landed on
something that you know you can always
evolve doing it’s always morphing and
changing like your relationship with
music and how how and why you react to
it and how and why you need it over the
course of a day and you know I love that
and that’s just it it’s not even really
something that I have to work out it’s
just there and that’s a you know it’s
there just as just as the air that I
breathe and that’s you know that’s great
it’s beautiful thank you so much guys