On March 27, Death Cab for Cutie released its eighth studio album with Atlantic Records, called Kintsugi. The album is named after a Japanese art movement, which bassist Nick Harmer describes as a “style of art where [the Japanese] take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold.”
“It’s making the repair of an object a visual part of its history,” Harmer said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “That resonated with [the band] as a philosophy, and it connects to a lot of what [we] were going through, both professionally and personally.