8x GRAMMY Award-nominated rock band Death Cab for Cutie return today with Roman Candles, the first track off their highly-anticipated tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows. The new track from the indie rock veterans now in their 25th year as a band is available at all DSPs and streaming services via Atlantic Records. The song arrives with an official lyric video designed by Juliet Bryant (Justin Vernon, Japanese Breakfast, Laura Jane Grace)

Announced officially with todays release, Asphalt Meadows arrives everywhere on Friday, September 16.

As with the forthcoming album in its entirety, Roman Candles was produced by GRAMMY Award-winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Wallows).

Of the inspiration for the song, the band shares: Roman Candles is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet. And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go.