Death Cab For Cutie perform "Black Sun" on Jimmy Kimmel Live

In our interview with the band, frontman Ben Gibbard spoke about a range of things, including the way guitars and instincts shaped Kintsugi:

"Obviously, there were a lot of things going on in my personal life, and I was initially conflicted about how to present that. I remember talking to Jenny Lewis, who's always one of the first people I run new songs past, and she helped me realise that it'd be going against my instincts as a songwriter to change the way I worked just because I was worried that, rightly or wrongly, people might make assumptions about what it was that I was talking about. To be totally honest, if this album feels like a lyrical throwback in any way, it's because I bought a guitar that forced me to play like I did fifteen years ago. I found myself in possession of an old seventies Fender Mustang that has a small neck; I have stubby fingers, and I always struggled to play guitars with really giant necks. That's what I'd been doing, though, these past few years - playing these Fender G&Ls that were wide-necked, meaning that I wasn't writing parts like I used to. It became a weird chicken-and-egg situation on this record, because playing guitar like I used to seemed to also, at times, drive the lyrics back to a place I hadn't been in a while, too."

Kintsugi is out now via Atlantic. You can read our review of the album here.

Check out the performance below.