Death Cab for Cutie on a Changing Seattle with Gold Rush

Death Cab for Cutie has released the first single from their upcoming album, Gold Rush, and it appears to be about a changing Seattle as mentioned in this CNET article,
Death Cab for Cutie sings about Amazon, tech boom and Seattle.

Some of the lyrics:

I remember a winter’s night
We kissed beneath the street lamp light
Outside a bar near the record store
That have been condos for a year and more
Now that our haunts have taken flight
And been replaced with construction sites
Oh, how I feel like stranger here

There’s a little irony here as Ben Gibbard lead singer for Death Cab for Cutie, owned a condo for many years at 1310 E Union, which he recently sold and likely enjoyed a little gold rush of his own. And of course, almost none of those construction sites are for condos, they’re for apartments.

But I get what he is talking about. Seattle has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years and many of our old haunts are gone. Though, I don’t know about him, but I’m older and wouldn’t be at those haunts anyways.

I’m also surprised they didn’t film it in Seattle!