Today, indie rock titans Death Cab for Cutie announced their 11th studio album I Built You A Tower, due out June 5th via Anti- Records – their return to their independent roots after 20 years on Atlantic records.

With the announcement comes lead single "Riptides," with its music video directed by Jason Lester.

"’Riptides’ is about the challenge of dealing with personal struggles as the world around us experiences tragedy and loss on an unfathomable scale,” says frontman Benjamin Gibbard. “And how when these two elements intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels utterly paralyzing."

I Built You A Tower is an album of reconciling with past selves in order to locate a new future. “The anniversary tours exorcised any nostalgia in our systems,” Dave Depper observes. “We felt part of this powerful force greater than all of us and went into the studio with a sense of, how can we capture that feeling and put it into something new?” Nicholas Harmer continues, “The whole experience of this record got us back to the earliest versions of this band: If the musicians in the room like what we’re working on, that’s enough. We reconnected with the confidence that comes with that.”

The band recently announced a North American summer tour, which is on sale now. Today the band also announces a Fall UK/EU tour, with tickets going on sale this Friday at 10 am locally. See the full list of dates below.

I Built You A Tower is out June 5th. Preorder here. Tracklist below.

1. Full of Stars
2. Punching The Flowers
3. Pep Talk 
4. I Built You A Tower (a)
5. Envy The Birds
6. Stone Over Water
7. How Heavenly a State
8. Trap Door
9. Riptides
10. The Flavor of Metal
11. I Built You A Tower (b)

Death Cab for Cutie tour dates:

05/29 Denver, CO @ Outside Days
07/10 Minneapolis, MN @ Armory *
07/11 Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre *
07/12 Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater *
07/14 Cincinnati, OH @ MegaCorp Pavilion *
07/15 Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion *
07/17 Philadelphia, PA @ Highmark Mann Center ^
07/18 Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC ^
07/19 Toronto, ON @ RBC Amphitheatre ^
07/21 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion ^
07/22 Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park ^
07/24 St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre #
07/25 Bentonville, AR @ The Momentary #
07/26 Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah’s Stir Cove #
07/28 Sandy, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater #
07/29 Sandy, UT @ Sandy Amphitheater #
07/31 Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre #
08/02 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre #
08/03 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre #
08/04 San Diego, CA @ Gallagher Square at Petco Park #
08/06 Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels &
08/07 Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre &
08/09 San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
09/16 Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/19 Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
09/20 Edinburgh, UK @ Corn Exchange
09/21 Gateshead, UK @ The Glasshouse
09/23 Bristol, UK @ The Prospect Building
09/25 London, UK @ Troxy
09/29 Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
09/30 Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
10/01 Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
10/03 Paris, FR @ Elysée Montmartre

*with Jay Som
^with Japanese Breakfast
#with Nation of Language
&with Lala Lala

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