Guitarist-keyboardist Dave Depper talks about why the current tour feels like the band is at its best, and why Death Cab’s songs still hold such an emotional sway over listeners.
, which plays the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 21, a few days after playing the House of Blues in Anaheim on Tuesday, Oct. 18, has good reason to be enjoying this current run of shows behind the band’s 10th studio album.
Q: My understanding is that ‘Asphalt Meadows’ was at least started during the pandemic through file sharing and sending things back and forth. What was it like to make a record under this unusual set of rules? But in the case of ‘Rand McNally,’ it got to me and I just had the sense that I wanted to play piano on it. And I didn’t quite know what I wanted to do, but given the fact that I had the whole day to work on it I felt comfortable sitting down and coming up with something I could really stand behind when I sent it off.
That said, you know, it’s his job to honestly reflect his emotional state and the times he’s living in and, of course, COVID is inextricable from his experience. But it is of a piece with his work dating back to songs like ‘Title and Registration,’ which starts being a song about like how strange it is that glove compartments are named the way they are, but it then zooms out to be this kind of universal human experience.
A: I don’t think that it’s insulting or hurting our feelings with regard to the material that was released in like the last 10 years or anything like that. I think it has a nice sense of validation.
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