Whoops: Party Ben Gets Fooled by Fake Death Cab Leak

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The supposed leak of the new Death Cab for Cutie album I downloaded unwittingly last week and just opened up to check out today turns out to be a fake: an April Fool’s joke by a blogger called Charlatantric. He put the new Death Cab song in the middle of a bunch of songs by German band Velveteen, whose singer sure sounds a lot like Ben Gibbard, in my (admittedly rather weak) defense. Guess I gotta check them out, I liked it so much. Anyway, goes to show: don’t believe everything you read on this here series of tubes, something Nick Baumann just pointed out on this very blog. I’ll review the real Death Cab CD as soon as we get it.