Claude says:Death Cab's tenth record came together through what Gibbard called "chain-letter songwriting" — band members passing Dropbox files back and forth during the pandemic, each taking the music in unexpected harmonic directions before John Congleton helped them finish nearly ninety sketches down to eleven tracks. You grabbed it right when it dropped in September 2022 and lived hard with it through the first nine months, playing "Roman Candles" and "I Don't Know How I Survive" more than anything else, then mostly moved on.