Soul Meets Body

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"Soul Meets Body"
Single by Death Cab for Cutie
from the album Plans
Released	2005
Format	CD
Recorded	Spring 2005
Genre	Indie rock
Length	3:50
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer(s)	Chris Walla
Death Cab for Cutie singles chronology
"Title and Registration" (2004)	"Soul Meets Body" (2005)	"Crooked Teeth" (2006)

"Soul Meets Body" is a song by Washington rock band Death Cab For Cutie. It was released on the group's 2005 album Plans, their first collaboration with Atlantic Records, and was that album's first single. The band based the track on a demo Ben Gibbard created from sampled sounds. The song stands out from many other Death Cab For Cutie works in its prominent featuring of the mandolin.

"Soul Meets Body" was played live on Last Laugh '05, a comedy special on Comedy Central summarizing 2005. Jon Watts directed a video for the track, which featured a series of musical notes drifting thorugh the air, a literal interpretation of the song's key lyric "a melody softly soaring through my atmosphere." The song peaked at #5 on the U.S. Modern Rock tracks chart.

Australian act The Saturday Club has created a chopped and screwed remix of the track for the mp3 blog Screw Rock 'n' Roll.

The video is where frontman Ben Gibbard walks through a forest in spring to arrive at a cottage where the band performs the beginning of the song, then the camera shifts to musical notes arising out of the ground and floating off, several of them dying by being kept in jars by children or getting caught on a phone line.

Death Cab for Cutie
Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Nick Harmer | Jason McGerr Nathan Good | Michael Schorr
Discography
Albums: You Can Play These Songs with Chords (cassette) (1997) | Something about Airplanes (1998) | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) | The Photo Album (2001) | You Can Play These Songs with Chords (+10 re-issue) (2002) | Transatlanticism (2003) | Plans (2005)
EPs: The Forbidden Love E.P. (2000) | The Stability E.P. (2002) | Studio X Sessions E.P. (2004) | The John Byrd E.P. (2005)
Singles: "A Movie Script Ending" (2002) | "Stability" (2002) | "I Was a Kaleidoscope" (2002) | "We Laugh Indoors" (2002) | "The New Year" (2003) | "The Sound of Settling" (2004) | "Title and Registration" (2004) | "Soul Meets Body" (2005) | "Crooked Teeth" (2006) | "I Will Follow You into the Dark" (2006)
Other releases: ITunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie (2005)
Filmography
Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (2005) | Directions (2006)
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