Check out new song from Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard

Frontman of alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard, is releasing his debut solo album entitled Former Lives on October 16 via Barsuk. It will feature 12 previously unreleased or remade tracks also with host appearances from Jon Wurster, Mark Spencer, and Aimee Mann.

He said about the album:

“It wasn’t a goal and it certainly wasn’t a reaction to any sort of dissatisfaction to recording with Death Cab or anything like that. In the past whenever I’ve put out any solo recordings it’s just been of a function of the time in which I was in. I’m a songwriter and that’s my job, and with every record that we’ve made there would always be a couple of tunes that just didn’t seem to fit in with the band.”

Recently he also revealed first track of the album. Song is entitled "Teardrop Windows" and it sounds a lot like Death Cab for Cutie song. That brings me to thinking that he could just record all these songs with his band. However, maybe other tracks sound completely different and are nothing like Death Cab for Cutie - we'll see.

First when Ben Gibbard announced this solo album, I thought that it will be really dark, sad and twisted album because he recently broke up with actress Zooey Deschanel. But based on this track, I was mistaken...

Tracklisting of Former Lives:

01. "Shepherd’s Bush Lullaby"
02. "Dream Song"
03. "Teardrop Windows"
04. "Bigger Than Love"
05. "Lily"
06. "Something’s Rattling (Cowpoke)"
07. "Duncan, Where Have You Gone?"
08. "Oh, Woe"
09. "A Hard One to Know"
10. "Lady Adelaide"
11. "Broken Yolk in Western Sky"
12. "I’m Building a Fire"