Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Death Cab for Cutie: "I Will Possess Your Heart" [Stream]

New Music: Death Cab for Cutie: "I Will Possess Your Heart" [Stream]

I must confess that I'm not the biggest Death Cab for Cutie fan in the world, but their new record Narrow Stairs is coming in May-- their first full-length in three years-- and their sizable fanbase is understandably excited. "I Will Posses Your Heart" is the first single from the record; it seems an unsual choice for that position and is not what comes to mind when I think of the band: eight minutes long, slow to build, more mood and suggestion than tune, with Chris Walla's production sounding like he's been listening to Daniel Lanois. But then Ben Gibbard's voice enters about halfway through, and it could be no one else.

Stream:> Death Cab for Cutie: "I Will Possess Your Heart" (Real) (WM)
[from Narrow Stairs; due 05/13/08 from Atlantic]