New This Week: Making Codes and Turning Keys

Music News Wed, 18 May 2011 Written by Rasha Omer
Death Cab for Cutie's 7th Studio Album

This week at triplew.me we take a look at a whole bunch of new things - From releases, shows on our audio stream to tracks and videos. So read below for a quick look what’s happening on triplew.me as of late…

We’ve some new material this week from some classic artists in very different genres. We take a look at that and the new tunes you can check out on our audio stream ahead of the new shows we have planned.

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New Album from Death Cab for Cutie

It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than thirteen years since the formation of Death Cab for Cutie – and with the release of their seventh studio album “Codes and Keys”, the band is changing it up once again. Recorded over a period of seven months across different studios in the West Coast (of the US) – the band has taken a completely different and much more constructed approach – as Chris Walla (guitarist/producer/pianist) puts it “We've deconstructed little pieces of songs before like this. But, we've never pulled the thread out of the whole sweater and then made a new sweater out of it. Not like this.” Walla adds that he was pleased that his band mates “were all willing to let me lead them down the rabbit hole on a lot of different songs.

The album explores different textures, sound compositions and styles – with songs ranging from dark and gloomy to poppy, flamboyant and vaudeville-ish . Drummer Jason McGerr says “With all the songs that Ben wrote, he really experimented a lot with his songwriting, he started to use his voice more as an instrument than just somebody singing lyrics.” – This experimental approach has added an extra layer of imagery to the tracks which, according to Walla, creates an amazing experience for the listener “I've been learning that there's a way to present a song and a way to move somebody with a landscape they haven't necessarily seen or heard before. I really wanted to try to do that. I wanted to try and make a new visual for the cinema of song.”

Despite the deconstructed and separated recording sessions – Codes and Keys remains a cohesive unit, largely due to the vision of producer Chris Walla - “I was really interested in making a record rather than a recording,” Walla says. “And particularly when it came to vocal treatments and drawing big, heavy dark lines between verses and choruses and doing that sort of thing, I asked him (Alan Moulder, Codes and Keys mixer) to be pretty brave and pretty bold with all of that stuff.”

Check Death Cab for Cutie's latest single You Are A Tourist below - Codes and Keys in stores on the 31st of May.

Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist

New Video from Cults

Cults are a California-based indie pop duo (they played Coachella and will play Glastonbury this summer) which has been quite the buzz recently due to their upcoming new self-titled release. Check out the new (interesting, to say the least!) video for the single "Abducted" - a cool, new catchy track (which is in rotation on our live audio stream). Watch the vieo below!

Cults - Abducted

ADDED THIS WEEK

We've started streaming specialized shows on our live audio stream every night - for the full schedule and a description of the shows, check out this link

Listen out for this week:

Middle East Artists

International Artists

  • Cults
  • TV on the Radio
  • Gang Gang Dance
  • My Morning Jacket
  • Thurston Moore
  • Noah & The Whale
  • Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
  • Laura Stevenson & The Cans
  • Howling Bells
  • PJ Harvey
  • Moby
  • tUnE-yArDs