Death Cab for Cutie Say They Aim to Record New Album With New Members in 2017: Watch

Death Cab for Cutie's most recent album, last year's Kintsugi, marked the band's first without founding member and lead guitarist Chris Walla joining them on the promotional run. While Kintsugi still brought the same warmth and comforting indie-rock sound fans have known to love from Death Cab, many are worried about what LP No. 9 will sound like as their first completely sans-Walla.

We caught up with Death Cab bassist Nick Harmer at Bonnaroo 2016, who pacified fans by saying the group's future is looking bright with their new guitarist/keyboardist/back-up vocalist Dave Depper and keyboardist/guitarist Zac Rae:

"We started the cycle losing a founding member of our band and had some big question marks about how and what it was going to be like to fill his shoes and continue on without him. We were lucky to find some really great players, and now really close friends...it's given us a lot more strength and energy and a lot more positivity looking forward which is then hopefully going to transition into the next record cycle. We'll make a record with them sometime next year."

Mark your calendars: New Death Cab record as early as 2017.