Ben Gibbard: 'We've got a superhero in Seattle. I'm not making this up'

He's ridden a Death Cab, worked for the Postal Service and ventured into alt-country. Ben Gibbard picks the songs he's written that explain him bestBen Gibbard's first solo album Former Lives is a surprisingly upbeat affair, with a focus on storytelling and less of the intense, corner-of-the-garage introspection you've come to expect from his day job as frontman of Death Cab for Cutie. Four years ago Gibbard stopped drinking and became addicted to marathon running instead. But his former life â€...

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