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Ben Gibbard Biography

Benjamin Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with which he has recorded eight studio albums, and as one half of the electronica duo the Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives, in 2012, and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009), with Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt's Jay Farrar.

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Keeping fans loyal is a delicate balance. Therein lies the challenge for any band that's more than a couple albums deep. It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

Albums, Balance, Couple, Lying, People, Push

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

Interesting, Interesting Things, Liking, Make, Things

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again. "

Existing, Firsts, Indicative, Kind, Person, Wall

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

Abuser, Girlfriend, Loved, Strangers, Together, Wife

Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one. " There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one. " You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Healthy, Like, Maintain, People, Record, Thinking

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

Narrative, Sometimes, Think, Thinking, Word

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

Want, Habit, Starting, Habits, Bad

I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

Albums, Beauty, Dark, Different, Ready, Stairs

The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be making albums. We had cut ourselves free from the security of day-job life. The goals became primarily financial, at least for a while. That was the roughest time we had ever had as a band, because that was the first moment we realized that this was for real. We were not goofing around anymore. We all threw everything we had into this in a way where we all found ourselves really far from home, and we were stuck with each other.

Cut, Cutting, Goofing, Home, Real, Stuck

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

Kind, Reveal, Sit, Sonic, Time, Trying

There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a "nice studio. " We were at the point where we were young and irreverent. We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. "Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that's really fancy. Well we've got an eight-track. We've got it going on here. " Now that we have the resources, we're like, "Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It's actually a pretty good place. " It's funny how much changes so quickly.

Changes, Irreverent, Nice, Quickly, Wow, Young

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

God Knows, Knows, Records, Sign, Straight, Time

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our own. We come together not really knowing what the other people having been really listening to and what's been influencing them.

Influencing, Listening, People, Record, Together

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as I look at some of those older records, I don't hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal. I'd like the songs to be more storytelling, but also have the turns of phrase within them that would hopefully distance my writing from the pack. I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.

Become, Clever, Distance, Song, Thing, Way

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

Clever, Key, Keys, Listening, Song, Songwriting

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

Back, Groups, Musical, Oates, Song, Songs

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

50S, Kind, Late, Living, World

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Album, Chinese, Democracy, Indie Rock, Rock, Rocks

An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.

Break, Girlfriend, People, Rely, Upset

I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have Xs on my hands, but I guess if I wanted to go back to calling myself straight-edge, I could. Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26. 2.

Habit, Kind, Let, Running, Same, Seemed

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