Death Cab For Cutie med nytt album – Chris Walla lämnar bandet

Både bra och dåliga nyheter från Death Cab For Cutie.

Det goda nyheterna är att bandet just färdigställt sitt åttonde album och planerar en release i början av 2015. De tråkiga nyheterna är att gitarristen Chris Walla lämnar bandet. Det var i samtal med the Stranger som han avslöjade nyheten – anledningen beskriver han med orden “long for the unknown”. Han kommer dock fortsätta att turnera med bandet fram till den 13 september. Nedan ser ni ett fullständigt uttalande från Chris Walla.

”Short version: I’m leaving Death Cab For Cutie. My last show with the band will be September 13, 2014, at the Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, BC. I hope you guys can make it.

Longer version: I think I long for the unknown. It might be that simple.

I will miss being a quarter of this band, and will support whatever course Death Cab for Cutie chooses from here. I am profoundly grateful to Ben, Nick, and Jason, for the experiences that define my adult life. Truly grateful, beyond words. Thank you.

I am also grateful to, and deeply humbled by, all of our fans. Without you, music would be mere ‘content’, and nothing could possibly be sadder than that. Thank you all, so dearly.

We’ve just finished our eighth album, which is our first with an outside producer. That producer is a fellow named Rich Costey, and working with him in this capacity is one of the greatest joys of my professional life. Thank you, as well.

There are so many others to whom I am grateful—our crew, our management, our families, the Atlantic, Barsuk and Elsinor labels, the Billions team. Thank you all.

Deciding to leave the band was not, and is not, easy. It’s really, really sad. I love my bandmates, and I’m proud of what we’ve done, and mercifully, those things don’t change with my departure. Moving forward, my plans are simply to continue making music, producing records, and erring on the side of benevolence and beauty whenever possible. Darkness may find me, but I shall never choose it.”