Death Cab announces title for eighth studio album

Last night, Death Cab for a Cutie announced via its MySpace blog that the band's new album, slated for delivery onto the shelves of your favorite local record store (and the Internet, of course) this May, has been christened Narrow Stairs.

Last December, when the then-untitled album's existence was announced to a multitude of obsessive Death Cab fans via the band's official website, not much more was released other than the release date. Paste recently had the opportunity to further discuss the record with Chris Walla, who called it "kind of…damaged."

Damaged or not, Death Cab fans have been champing at the bit since 2005 to get a listen of some new material, and come May, their appetite will finally be satiated.

'Til then: