Ben Gibbard has announced a new covers album. As part of Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious monthly vinyl subscription series, the Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service frontman will cover Teenage Fanclub’s 1991 record Bandwagonesque in full. The album will be released only on vinyl (with digital downloads for those who purchase) in 2017. Gibbard said of his choice: “Bandwagonesque is my favorite record by my favorite band of all time. It came along at a pivotal time in my musical life and I’ve loved it for over 25 years. It’s been such a blast taking these songs apart to see how they work and then putting them back together again.” Subscribe to Sounds Delicious here.
Gibbard’s Bandwagonesque covers LP is his first solo full-length since 2012’s Former Lives. In 2015, Death Cab for Cutie put out their latest album, Kintsugi.
In addition to Gibbard’s record, Turntable Kitchen’s 2017 releases include: Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado covering Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, Yumi Zouma covering Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (with Kristin Kontrol and Titus Andronicus members) playing Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever, and Ava Luna covering Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson. In addition, Local Natives, POP ETC’s Chris Chu, and others will cover Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue.
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