“Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)” by Death Cab for Cutie

"Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)" sits on Kintsugi, the eighth album from Death Cab for Cutie, released by Atlantic in March 2015, and Ben Gibbard wrote both its music and its words himself.

The record broke with the band's old habits. Rich Costey, who produced and mixed this song and recorded it with Martin Cooke and Nicolas Fournier, was the first outside producer Death Cab had ever brought in, and the sessions at Eldorado Recording Studios in Burbank, California, played out while founding lead guitarist Chris Walla was heading for the exit. He announced he was leaving during the making of the album but kept at it as a full member until the work was done. Mario Borgatta assisted on the recording, and Kintsugi itself went on to a Best Rock Album nomination at the 58th Grammys.

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