Benjamin Gibbard
Former Lives
bark130 LP / CD Barsuk Records October 2012
- Shepherd's Bush Lullaby
- Dream Song
- Teardrop Windows
- Bigger Than Love
- Lily
- Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)
- Duncan, Where Have You Gone?
- Oh, Woe
- A Hard One To Know
- Lady Adelaide
- Broken Yolk In Western Sky
- I'm Building A Fire
Other cities, other plans; different friends, different dreams; former loves, former lives. After fifteen years in Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard didn't make his first solo album in search of a new beginning; instead, it closes a door. "These songs span eight years, three relationships, living in two different places, drinking then not drinking" he says of the dozen tracks that comprise Former Lives. "They're a side story, not a new chapter." Still, what we keep for ourselves is often just as interesting as what we choose to share. Former Lives is a gorgeous shadow anthology, the exuberant sound of one of our best songwriters finding his voice by experimenting with those of others.
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