{"id":16044,"date":"2013-04-04T08:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=16044"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:06:37","slug":"listen-to-death-cab-for-cuties-chris-wallas-new-song-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-04\/listen-to-death-cab-for-cuties-chris-wallas-new-song-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Death Cab For Cutie&#8217;s Chris Walla&#8217;s New Song &#8220;Never Give Up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <strong>ex-Him<\/strong> (<strong>Ben Gibbard<\/strong>) is getting a pound of press for the impending<strong> Postal Service<\/strong> comeback, his bandmate <strong>Chris Walla <\/strong>has just released (for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordstoreday.com\/Home\"><strong>Record Store Day<\/strong> on April 2oth<\/a>) a new song entitled <em><strong>Never Give Up<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The song sounds to these ears like a variation on a theme of <strong>Death Cab for Cutie&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong> evocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PKmGJParYno\"><em><strong>Passenger Seat.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><\/a>Walla is a talented composer and player, having delivered (in addition to his Death Cab contributions and various stellar production jobs) a superb solo album in 2008 (<strong>Field Manual<\/strong>).\u00a0 And he&#8217;s yet again given us a sworn and cinematic song in <em><strong>Never Give Up<\/strong><\/em>, which is side A of the record release on <strong>Trans-Records<\/strong> (<strong>Walla\u2019s<\/strong> own label), and is backed by the upbeat <strong>Sombear<\/strong> song<em><strong> Incredibly Still<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Listen to both below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F85919744\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F84886804&amp;secret_token=s-yx6VS\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the ex-Him (Ben Gibbard) is getting a pound of press for the impending Postal Service comeback, his bandmate Chris Walla has just released (for Record Store Day on April 2oth) a new song entitled Never Give Up.\u00a0 The song sounds to these ears like a variation on a theme of Death Cab for Cutie&#8217;s\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}