Benjamin Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is a singer/songwriter best known as frontman for Pacific Northwestern indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie. Gibbard was raised in Washington and got interested in music due in part to the explosion of grunge and its roots in his region during his formative high-school years. Gibbard's first band was the fledgling Pinwheel, who released one self-titled album in 1996. Pinwheel's Justin Kennedy would go on to front Army Navy. Gibbard began Death Cab for Cutie as a solo project in 1997, taking the name from a song by cheeky classic rockers the Bonzo Dog Band. He released a cassette of his sentimental acoustic-leaning songs called You Can Play These Songs with Chords under the new moniker later that year, and the reception was warm enough to merit expanding the project into a full band.
Death Cab for Cutie would go on to enormous popularity and release records for years to come, but Gibbard's itch to work solo continued. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked on several solo releases under the name ¡All-Time Quarterback! Collaboration became standard for Gibbard early on as well. In addition to joining friends Pedro the Lion as a bassist for one tour, Gibbard has collaborated in some form or another with the Long Winters, Jenny Lewis, Jay Farrar, Styrofoam, Andrew Kenny of American Analog Set, and others. Perhaps his most fruitful collaboration came in the form of adding guest vocals to the Dntel song "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" on the 2001 album Life Is Full of Possibilities.
From that meeting, Gibbard began trading sound files with Dntel beatmaker Jimmy Tamborello for what would become the immensely popular project known as the Postal Service, thusly titled because the two would send each other song ideas through the mail. The Postal Service's 2003 debut, Give Up, was well received critically as well as in terms of sales, going gold in two countries. Gibbard married actress/singer Zooey Deschanel in September of 2009 and the couple remained together for two years before divorcing in the fall of 2011.
In 2012 Gibbard issued Former Lives, the first collection of songs under his own name. Two years later he supplied the score to the romantic comedy film The Laggies, and he returned to Death Cab for Cutie for 2015's Kintsugi, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. In 2017 he delivered Bandwagonesque, a reworking of Teenage Fanclub's breakthrough 1991 album of the same name.
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11 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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One Fast Move Or I'm Gone Music From Kerouac's Big Sur
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez F-Stop Records - Atlantic le 16 oct. 2009
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Life in Quarantine
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Barsuk Records le 27 mars 2020
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Bandwagonesque
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Canvasback - Turntable Kitchen - Atlantic le 28 juil. 2017
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Bandwagonesque
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Canvasback - Turntable Kitchen - Atlantic le 28 juil. 2017
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Proxima B / Filler
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Barsuk Records le 29 mai 2020
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Every Beginning Ends
Pop - Paru chez Records - Columbia le 26 août 2022
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Kurt Cobain About A Son: Original Score
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Barsuk Records le 20 mai 2008
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Laggies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bandes originales de films - Paru chez Lakeshore Records le 4 nov. 2014
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Keep Yourself Warm (from Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight')
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Atlantic Records UK le 10 juil. 2019
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Home EP
Benjamin Gibbard, Andrew Kenny
Rock - Paru chez Bedside Recordings le 20 mai 2003
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The Concept
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Canvasback - Turntable Kitchen - Atlantic le 14 juil. 2017
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