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Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n Death Cab For Cutie\u2019s fifth album Plans <\/em>recently turned 20. The Seattle band\u2019s major label debut was their first and only album to go platinum, powered by the radio hits \u201cSoul Meets Body\u201d and \u201cI Will Follow You into the Dark\u201d as well as the prominent use of their music in the primetime hit The O.C.<\/em> Frontman Ben Gibbard was on a prolific streak after releasing both Death Cab\u2019s fourth album Transatlanticism<\/em> and his electronic side project the Postal Service\u2019s Give Up<\/em> in 2003, but he revisited an earlier composition for the closing track on Plans<\/em>.<\/p>\n More from Spin:<\/p>\n \u201cStable Song\u201d as it appears on Plans <\/em>is a slow building waltz that runs three and a half minutes, but its lyrics and melody were already familiar to longtime Death Cab fans as \u201cStability\u201d from 2002\u2019s The Stability<\/em> EP. With an extended instrumental coda, though, \u201cStability\u201d is over 12 minutes, making it the longest track in the Death Cab For Cutie catalog. \u201cStability\u201d was among the last songs Death Cab recorded with drummer Michael Schorr before he left the band. It also features keyboards by John Vanderslice and the Prom frontman James Mendenhall, who died in 2019.<\/p>\n A 2021 deluxe edition of 2001\u2019s The Photo Album<\/em> included a demo of \u201cStable Song.\u201d It\u2019s closer to the length and structure of the Plans<\/em> version, revealing that the band simply chose to release \u201cStability\u201d first, while the shorter version waited in the wings for a few more years.<\/p>\n