Barsuk Records

He started out licensing songs for Matador Records and left to create his own company, Bankrobber Music.

When all this went down, he was working with Barsuk, Death Cab's label, on placements, and we'll answer his question in a minute

It was bananas.

It was just off the charts.

Obviously, it's really helped them get to where they are

Until this point, Death Cab's audience was significantly smaller than the tune-in audience for a network TV show, and this show was getting over seven million viewers an episode in its first season.

Ben Gibbard tells us what happened when the head of their record label, Barsuk, called him about The O.C

Imagine that you're us, and Josh Rosenfeld calls you on, like, a Tuesday and is like, "Hey, there's a show on Fox, and they wanna use a MovieScript ending.

I love Death Cab for Cutie, so it makes sense this is a slam dunk for me, but it really sounds like such...

It's like someone understood why the like Barsuk era Death Cab run is so good.

It, it feels like someone understood that it's not just because Ben Gibbard is singing, and I think between their previous songs to this album, it's such like a glow up for Abel Baker.

It sounds so good.

It's the most critically lauded album in their catalog to date, as well as one of the year's best sellers from this scene, Transatlanticism.

Josh Rosenfeld, the owner of Barsuk Records, knew from the first time he heard it that it was special.

All the pieces really seemed to be falling into place.

I think the Photo Album time, they'd been touring tons and tons, and they were all just really stressed out and a lot of kind of internal band tension happening that felt like it had resolved and we'd kind of all gotten into a groove.

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