After 17 years in Death Cab For Cutie, Walla has a solo album full of ambient, hand-crafted, subtly enveloping instrumental music. Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after the album is ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On the eve of an album release, most musicians are almost giddy. Fueled by pride in their new ...

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In the fall of 2013, Chris Walla was having a crisis of confidence. After 17 years as guitarist and producer for Death Cab for Cutie, he found himself disinterested in the music they were working on ...

Constructing a tape loop is not easy. There’s a lot of things that can go wrong fiddling with a cassette’s plastic cogs and the delicate magnetic tape inside. Tape breaks or becomes unspooled, all ...