TONIGHT: Ben Gibbard @ the Keswick

As it turns out, Gibbs has long been sitting on a formidable stockpile of tunes that just didn't fit with Death Cab or anywhere else.

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TONIGHT: Ben Gibbard @ the Keswick

POSTED: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 12:15 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has been called a lot of things, but “prolific” typically isn’t one of them, despite a healthy track record of side projects during the band’s 15-year career. As it turns out, Gibbs has long been sitting on a formidable stockpile of tunes that just didn’t fit with Death Cab or anywhere else. He’s finally gathered a dozen of them on Former Lives (Barsuk), his first proper solo album. Roots-rock rave-ups, wistful baroque pop and tropicalia-tinged campfire ballads all have a home here, tied together by Gibbard’s sweet, earnest voice. And while heartbreak seems to be the prevailing concern, don’t go thinking the album’s necessarily a rejoinder to his recent divorce from Zooey Deschanel — romantic woe’s always been the primary color on Gibbard’s songwriting palette. Proof comes this evening, when he draws from his entire songbook — solo, Death Cab, Postal Service and otherwise — during a solo acoustic performance.

TONIGHT, Wed., Nov. 7, 8 p.m., $25-$35, with Advance Base, Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.

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