"Unquestionably the best thing they've ever done... and an early contender for the best album of 2008." – MTV.com

Atlantic recording group DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE has released the much awaited new video for “I Will Possess Your Heart,” the first single from their upcoming album NARROW STAIRS, which will be released on May 13 from Atlantic Records. Death Cab For Cutie once again push the envelope creatively and visually, enlisting long time friend and collaborator Aaron Stuart-Ahn, as well as acclaimed cinematographer / videographer Shawn Kim to shoot this amazing companion piece. Stewart-Ahn and the female protagonist traveled the world, filming the video in ten different locations – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Carthage and Tunis in Tunisia, Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia, Tokyo and Hokkaido in Japan, and NYC. For the performance footage, Shawn Kim spent a day shooting the band in a food storage facility in Los Angeles where the temperature never rose above 12 degrees.

Produced and mixed by the band’s very own Chris Walla, Narrow Stairs is the follow-up to Death Cab’s Grammy-nominated, RIAA platinum - certified 2005 release, Plans. The album is already receiving great reviews, with MTV.com raving, "Unquestionably the best thing they've ever done... and an early contender for the best album of 2008." Paste Magazine hails “Gibbard is at his best when he tethers his catchy tunes to lyrics grounded in specifics – a creek beneath a Big Sur bridge, the receiving line at a wedding, a closet full of clothes that ‘hang like ghosts of people I’ve been.’”

Death Cab kicked off their 2008 tour in April in their home state of Washington with a show at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton. The band also had the honor of playing an acoustic set as part of Seeds of Compassion, a five-day gathering in Seattle in honor of his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Death Cab has recently confirmed many more tour dates and festival appearances throughout the US in celebration of Narrow Stairs. In addition to previously announced performances at Coachella and Bonnaroo, they are also confirmed for the Sasquatch Festival on May 25, as well as a show at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on May 28. Death Cab for Cutie is: Ben Gibbard: guitars, keyboards, vocals; Chris Walla: guitars, keyboards; Nick Harmer: bass; Jason McGerr: drums. Narrow Stairs will be available for purchase in stores on May 13.