I guess sometimes your stadium-sized, heart-on-sleeve, I-IV harmonizing songs about fucking/not fucking just can’t exhaust all that they have to say about the universality of love’s bitter mystery on first go-around. Or maybe it’s just that they didn’t think that we heard them loudly and clearly enough when they said the word “Eno” like two dozen times when discussing this past spring’s Codes and Keys LP (TMT Review) because it paired the guitars-per-song down to seven to make room for all the atmospherics.
But whatever the combination of these two (and only these two) reasons it must have been, the recession-proof Atlantic recording combo Death Cab for Cutie announced today the forthcoming release of the Keys and Codes Remix EP (see, the title is all mixed up and backwards!), a collection of seven remixed songs from Codes and Keys. Today, the band revealed the first of the batch on their website, “Doors Unlocked and Open” by Zooey Deschanel’s hair stylist/voice coach’s step-nephew’s favorite Roxy Music-influenced band Cut Copy. The very very long track is available now on iTunes.
The band has said they’ll release one remix every Monday leading up to the November 22 release of the whole enchilada. Your move, Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.
Death Cab shows:
10.14.11 - Pomona, CA - The Fox Theatre
10.15.11 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
10.16.11 - San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Music Festival
10.18.11 - Boise, ID - Taco Bell Arena
10.20.11 - Portland, OR - Portland Memorial Coliseum
10.21.11 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
10.22.11 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena at Seattle Center
11.11.11 - Lubeck, Germany - Rolling Stone Weekender (Festival)
11.12.11 - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - den Atelier
11.13.11 - Cologne, Germany - E Werk
11.16.11 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
11.17.11 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Academy
11.18.11 - Birmingham, UK - Birmingham Ballroom
11.19.11 - Glasgow, UK - Glasgow Academy
• Death Cab for Cutie: http://www.deathcabforcutie.com
• Atlantic: http://atlanticrecords.com