New Death Cab For Cutie EP

Hot on the heels of their recent Australian tour, Death Cab for Cutie are releasing a new EP titled The Open Door. The five-track set will be released iTunes on Saturday 4 April with a physical CD on sale from Friday 1 May.

The Open Door features four previously unreleased songs recorded by Death Cab during the sessions which yielded last year’s RIAA gold-certified, Grammy Award-nominated Narrow Stairs. In addition, the EP includes a demo version of “Talking Bird” – found on Narrow Stairs – which sees the band’s Ben Gibbard accompanying his own vocals with ukulele. All five songs on The Open Door were written by Gibbard, except “My Mirror Speaks”, written by Gibbard and bassist Nick Harmer. The EP was produced by guitarist/keyboardist Chris Walla, except “Talking Bird (Demo)”, produced by Gibbard.

“When we finished Narrow Stairs,” Harmer recently told MTV.com, “there were four extra songs that, because we were trying to put together an album, we ended up not including – it’s not like they’re castoffs or anything; they're part of the Narrow Stairs experience. They needed to have a proper home, and the EP is it.”