Death Cab For Cutie have shared the official video for ‘Roman Candles’, the first track to be released from their upcoming tenth studio album, ‘Asphalt Meadows’.
“‘Roman Candles’ is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet. And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go,” the band said of the album’s first single.
Frontman Ben Gibbard added: “The lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic.”
The video has been directed by filmmaker Lance Bangs, who is known for his work with the likes of Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Kanye West. It was shot in one take and stars the entire band wearing safety goggles and gas masks, as what look like fireworks go off around them.
