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Death Cab for Cutie have announced that their upcoming The Blue EP will be released on September 6 with the first single, “Kids in’99”.
The EP will feature 5 tracks as the follow up to the group’s 2018 full-length album, Thank You for Today. The group was also featured on Chance the Rapper’s latest album, “The Big Day”.
The song “Kids in ’99” was written in tribute to three children who lost their lives in the 1999 Bellingham Olympic Pipeline explosion in Seattle, Washington.
“The Olympic Pipeline explosion in 1999 was a tragedy that really affected me while we were living in Bellingham,” Gibbard said. “After all these years I felt it was worthy of its own folk song.”
The Blue EP:
01 To the Ground
02 Kids in ’99
03 Man in Blue
04 Before the Bombs
05 Blue Bloods