“Title And Registration” by Death Cab for Cutie

"Title and Registration" sits on Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie's fourth album, and the version there is the one Chris Walla rebuilt at the mixing desk. Walla, who produced, recorded and mixed the track, felt its bouncy tempo and mood fought against Ben Gibbard's suspenseful lyric, so he slowed it down, reworked the guitar and bass lines, and squeezed the drums into something sparse with a Lexicon Varispeech, a box normally found in speech therapy. The earlier take, a markedly different animal, lives on the original CD single.

Gibbard wrote the words and shares the music credit with Walla. The song later became the album's third single, streamed as an internet-only release through the band's website with promo CDs on the side, and backed with a cover of Julian Cope's "World Shut Your Mouth".

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