“Here To Forever” by Death Cab for Cutie

"Here to Forever" was the second single from Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab for Cutie's tenth album, released through Atlantic on July 13, 2022, and it's Gibbard staring down mortality through a movie screen. The narrator watches an old film and realizes that the picture has outlasted everyone who made it, and the chorus reaches for some bigger meaning to it all. Gibbard traced the idea to watching French New Wave films and marveling at the likes of Monica Vitti, Anna Karina and Jeanne Moreau.

He wrote the music with Zac Rae, and John Congleton produced, engineered and mixed a track that shimmers and churns, restless guitars pushing against Gibbard's ache. Lance Bangs directed the video, which has Gibbard helping press the band's own album at a vinyl plant while two slacking employees, played by comedians Natalie Palamides and Courtney Pauroso, goof off, cut with shots of the band playing the song.

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