They are renowned as the poster-band for teen angst, mainly focusing their lyrics on relationship breakdowns and morose adoration. Now Death Cab for Cutie are back with the opening track from the highly anticipated soundtrack for 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' and melancholy moods are still their forte.
'Meet Me On the Equinox' was written by the Washington quartet for Stephenie Meyer’s sequel to 2008s 'Twilight,' starring Robert Pattinson and Kirsten Stewart. The movie grossed over £250m worldwide, and 'New Moon' is expected to be just as successful.
The single sets a haunting tone for the rest of the soundtrack, which features music greats such as Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, The Killers and Band of Skulls, with vocalist Benjamin Gibbard’s sombre sounds reflecting the overall theme of the movie which is set to contain a lot of heartbreak.
“A halo/A waiting room/Your last breaths/Moving through you/As everything, everything ends,” sings Gibbard, while the menacing melodies combined with the crashing cymbols and rusty bass compliment the chaos of the song’s message: that everything must eventually come to an end.
“We wrote 'Meet Me On the Equinox' to reflect the celestial themes and motifs that run throughout the Twilight series and we wanted to capture that desperate feeling of endings and beginnings that so strongly affect the main characters,” says Death Cab for Cutie’s bassist Nick Harmer, who says the band are ‘proud’ to be part of the Twilight legacy.
‘Meet Me On the Equinox’ is set for release on October 12, prior to 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ soundtrack’s release on October 19. ‘Twilight: New Moon’ hits cinemas nationwide on November 20.
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