Benjamin Gibbard

Benjamin Gibbard, born in Bremerton, Washington, in 1976, is the singer and guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie, the band he formed in Bellingham in 1997, and half of the Postal Service, whose only album, Give Up, came out in 2003. His one solo album of original songs is Former Lives (2012); in 2017 he followed it with a cover of Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque. Death Cab’s eleventh album, I Built You a Tower, came out on Anti- in June 2026.