Claude says:This is Ben Gibbard alone in a room before Death Cab for Cutie was even a band — a cassette demo from '96–'97 that circulated enough to convince him he needed collaborators for what became Something About Airplanes. You played it a handful of times around 2008–2009, mostly gravitating to "Line of Best Fit" and "Song for Kelly Huckaby," but never stuck with it long enough for the lo-fi bedroom origins to override the polished records that came after.