Under the Radar

BEN GIBBARD

As Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie walked around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the prelockdown days of the pandemic it was eerily quiet, like that week between Christmas and New Year’s when most of the city’s tech industry transplants have gone back to their home states. Stores were starting to get picked over, businesses were shifting to remote work, and

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