Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard has shared a stripped back cover of Minor Threat’s 1981 track ‘Filler’. “I covered this only once at a solo show in D.C. in 2012,” Gibbard shared. “I felt like recording and sharing it today. enjoy! xo Ben.” Listen to the cover below.
Back in March, Ben Gibbard released a record to honour the legacy of late musician and producer Richard Swift. The Swift Sessions featured two tracks from separate recording sessions with Swift. The first track was a cover of The Monkees’ ‘Me & Magdalena’—which Gibbard wrote for the band’s 2016 record, Good Times!— and the second track was a cover of Teenage Fanclub’s ‘The Concept.’
“There are very few people who I would call a genius, and I really believe Richard was one of those people,” Gibbard explained at the time.
In September last year, Death Cab For Cutie released a cover of Frightened Rabbit track ‘My Backwards Walk’ in tribute of late frontman Scott Hutchinson. Gibbard also participated in a Scott Hutchinson tribute evening at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade, alongside Kevin Devine, Julien Baker, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and The National’s Aaron Dessner.
Listen to Death Cab For Cutie’s interpretation of ‘My Backwards Walk’ below
