Death Cab for Cutie’s Dave Depper on Stereolab
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Host Evie Stokes sits down with Death Cab for Cutie’s Dave Depper to talk about touring, new album planning and his absolute love for Stereolab! Stereolab’s latest album Instant Holograms on Metal Film is out now on Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of. This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Dave Depper. Dave, how are you? I'm so good. Thanks for coming today. |
| 0:21.0 | My pleasure. |
| 0:22.0 | So tell me about yourself. |
| 0:23.8 | I play in the band Death Cab for QD. |
| 0:26.7 | And I'm happy to be alive and in Seattle. |
| 0:31.1 | That's kind of the capsule view of me, I guess. |
| 0:34.7 | The Cliff Notes. |
| 0:35.2 | The Cliff Notes. |
| 0:36.4 | Because we're in the middle of this tour. We just played |
| 0:38.8 | Climate Pledge Arena last night, last night as of this taping. And we're, yeah, we're going to |
| 0:44.8 | Chicago and New York and doing it there too, but we're also gearing up to make a new record in a month |
| 0:49.8 | and a half. And it's just go, go, go, go. Death Cab owns my life and soul right now. |
| 0:57.4 | I guess it could be worse. |
| 0:59.0 | It definitely could be worse. |
| 1:00.3 | Someone bad could own it, yeah. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:02.4 | Well, amongst all of that, you've still had some time to listen to new music that you love. |
| 1:07.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, good. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, what's the song you want to share with us today? |
| 1:11.3 | This song is Immortal Hands by Stereo Lab. And this comes from their new album. Instant holograms on metal film. Yes, it's their 11th album. Can you believe that? It's funny because, like, if you count, like, the compilations and all of the crazy B-Sides collections they have, it actually is like, it seems like they have, like, 45 albums or something. |
| 1:32.5 | Right. |
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