Michelle Shiers on March 18th, 2015

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Following the departure of Death Cab For Cutie‘s founding member Chris Walla in August, the band will release their eighth studio album entitled “Kintsugi” March 31st via Atlantic. “Kintsugi” is a Japanese philosophy of making the repair of broken ceramic objects a visual part of their history, rather than trying to disguise the breakage. This sentiment will play largely in the new album as the remaining three members continue forward (though Walla does appear on the album), this time with producer Rich Costey. Over the years, Death Cab have placed their feet firmly in the groundwork of emotive indie-rock and shuffled on the line where repression and reflection meet the inherent earnestness of Seattle guitar harmonies. They have shared four songs from the upcoming full-length and most recently the more subdued “Little Wanderer.” The track is a shiny-guitar-driven melancholy nod to long-distance relationships with literal lyrics, “And I hope your absence makes us grow fonder/I hope we always feel the same” which frontman Ben Gibbard sings with his usual everyman tone. “Kintsugi” is sure to be an album in which Death Cab For Cutie show off their new scars as a three-piece.

||| Stream: “Little Wanderer” and “Black Sun”

||| Live: Death Cab For Cutie perform July 12 at the Hollywood Bowl.

||| More: Check out  “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” and “No Room In A Frame” after the jump.

||| Also: “No Room In Frame”