Published
Thu, Aug 27, 2015, 21:55
- The five-tracker is the guitarist and producer's first work since he left the indie rock juggernaut last year.
Chris Walla, formerly of Death Cab For Cutie, has a new solo album called Tape Loops coming out on October 16th.
Walla, who hails from Washington state, is probably best known as the long-time guitarist and producer for Death Cab For Cutie, the indie rock band that he left last year. Tape Loops is his first work since the departure, and takes a more directly electronic tack. As the title hints, it's a collection of loops made the old-fashioned way: "decaying magnetic tape, finicky machines and razor blades," according to the label.
'I can't change a closed, physical tape loop with a mouse-click or a keystroke, and that’s precisely the point," Walla says. "Digital recording and editing often feels like working in a spreadsheet—it's not always a place for dreams."
The album will come via his own Trans Records. You can listen to "Kanta's Theme," and read a new interview with Walla, over at Interview Magazine.
Tracklist
01. Kanta's Theme
02. Introductions
03. I Believe In The Night
04. Goodbye
05. Flytoget
Trans Records will release Tape Loops on October 18th, 2015.