Death Cab for Cutie Drop New Single ‘Stone Over Water’

The track is taken from Death Cab for Cutie’s upcoming eleventh studio album, I Built You A Tower.

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Ahead of the release of Death Cab for Cutie’s upcoming eleventh record I Built You A Tower, out this Friday 5 June via ANTI-Records, the band have shared new single ‘Stone Over Water’.

Following the tracks ‘Riptides’ and ‘Punching the Flowers’, the band’s latest single is a low-key indie ballad that the band says is “a song about trying to convince everyone around you and most importantly, yourself, that you are okay when you definitely are not.”

After 20 years as part of the Atlantic Records family, I Built You A Tower marks Death Cab’s first independent release since their early days. Produced and engineered by John Congleton (Lana del Ray, The Killers, Gossip), the album was written and recorded in three weeks at Animal Rites in Los Angeles, as well as the band members’ homes in Seattle, Bellingham, Los Angeles and Portland.

The record came about during a hugely successful period professionally for frontman Benjamin Gibbard, as he toured the globe celebrating the 20th anniversaries of seminal Death Cab albums Transatlanticism and Plansm, while he was suffering on the personal front with the collapse of his personal life.

“There’s this need to find a place in ourselves to put loss and grief,” he explains about I Built You A Tower. “A place that can hold it so we can move on with our lives. But there are these moments where the trauma breaks out of that shell we created for it.”

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To coincide with the release of I Built You A Tower, Death Cab for Cutie are embarking on an Australian tour, their first in seven years. Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper and Zac Rae will play three special shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this November.

The tour commences at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion on Thursday 12 November, followed by Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Friday 13 November and concluding at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on Sunday 15 November. Tickets on sale now via secretsounds.com.

Before touching down in Australia, Death Cab for Cutie is playing a heap of shows across the US in the lead up to the release of I Built You A Tower.

Catch Death Cab for Cutie performing in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane this November. Tickets on sale via secretsounds.com. I Built You A Tower is out Friday 5 June via ANTI- Records. Pre-order here and pre-save here.

Death Cab For Cutie I Built You a Tower Australian Tour 2026

Thursday 12 November – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW

Friday 13 November – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, VIC

Sunday 15 November – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, QLD

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