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Chatting with Spin, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie said that he plans to take the band's next record in a different direction. Fans of the group know that this year's Narrow Stairs was, while pretty great, a very heavy record, both lyrically and musically.

In his cover-story essay for Paste back in May, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard mulled over Kerouac's On The Road. "I thought," Gibbard wrote then, "'that’s the way, that’s the ideal life, that’s great. You get in a car and you drive and you see your friends and you end up in a city for a night and you go out drinking and you catch up and you share these really intense experiences. And then you’re on the road and you’re doing it again.'"