Death Cab For Cutie have shared the first single, the psychedelic "Black Sun," for their upcoming eighth studio album Kintsugi, as well as their first round of tour dates.
"How could something so fair be so cruel," frontman Ben Gibbard sings on the grimy, riff heavy track. "When this black sun revolved around you?"
Kintsugi is due out March 21 on Atlantic Records and is produced by Rich Costey. It will be the group's first new album since the departure of founding member Chris Walla, who left the band last year.
Earlier this month, bassist Nick Harmer spoke to Rolling Stone about the idea behind the album title.
"It's a Japanese style of art where they take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold," Harmer said. "It's making the repair of an object a visual part of its history. That resonated with us as a philosophy, and it connected to a lot of what we were going through, both professionally and personally."
Death Cab for Cutie's upcoming tour features openers the Antlers and Tune-Yards. It kicks off April 10 in Mesa, Arizona and stops in Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Toronto, and more cities before heading overseas for some festival dates and returning stateside in July.
Check out "Black Sun" and the full list of tour dates below. Let us know what you think in the comments section!
Death Cab For Cutie 2015 Tour Dates:
04/10 – Mesa, AZ @ Quail Run Park
04/23 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
04/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
04/29 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
04/30 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
05/02 – Minneapolis, MN @ Northrop Auditorium
05/04 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
05/07 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
05/08 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre
05/09 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
05/12 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
05/13 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
06/08 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06/09 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
06/13 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
06/14 – Bergen, NO @ Bergenfest
06/15 – Stockholm, SE @ Munchenbryggeriet
06/23 – Zagreb, CH @ inMusic Festival
06/27 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Open Source Festival
07/12 – Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/03 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
