{"id":2393605,"date":"2026-04-28T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2393605"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:47:30","slug":"death-cab-for-cutie-share-new-song-punching-the-flowers-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/death-cab-for-cutie-share-new-song-punching-the-flowers-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab For Cutie Share New Song &#8220;Punching The Flowers&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, Death Cab For Cutie announced their ANTI- debut, <em>I Built You A Tower<\/em>. Ben Gibbard and company shared the lead single &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2492327\/death-cab-for-cutie-announce-new-album-i-built-you-a-tower-hear-riptides\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Riptides<\/a>,&#8221; and now the band&#8217;s back with the much rowdier tune &#8220;Punching The Flowers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Punching The Flowers&#8217; is a song about stagnation and the feeling of being imprisoned by The Known,&#8221; Gibbard explains. &#8220;And about the damage done when someone ventures deeper into the unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Punching The Flowers&#8221; follows a man stuck in a fatalist cycle, ravaged by frustration but not wanting to get better. The guitars are laden with emotion and Jason McGerr is <em>hitting<\/em> those drums. Watch the accompanying Jason Lester-directed music video below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death Cab for Cutie - &quot;Punching the Flowers&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1KTbDxOuuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>I Built You A Tower<\/em>\u00a0is out 6\/5 on ANTI-.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Death Cab For Cutie announced their ANTI- debut, I Built You A Tower. Ben Gibbard and company shared the lead single &#8220;Riptides,&#8221; and now the band&#8217;s back with the much rowdier tune &#8220;Punching The Flowers.&#8221; &#8220;Punching The Flowers&#8217; is a song about stagnation and the feeling of being imprisoned by The Known,&#8221; Gibbard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Death-Cab-For-Cutie-Share-New-Song-Punching-The-Flowers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393607,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393605\/revisions\/2393607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}