Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body (video)

What this video is

Released in the autumn of 2005 as the lead single from 'Plans' — Death Cab for Cutie's first album on Atlantic Records after years on the Seattle indie Barsuk Records — 'Soul Meets Body' arrived at the precise moment indie rock was being absorbed into mainstream American pop culture. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, moving 90,000 copies in its first week, marking one of the earliest top-five U.S.…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of Pacific Northwest indie rock's commercial breakthrough period. The video's concept-driven, effects-augmented approach to a single performer in landscape helped define a mid-2000s visual grammar for literate indie rock: understated, metaphor-forward, and nature-centric rather…

The director

Jonathan Watts (born June 28, 1981, Fountain, Colorado) studied film at New York University and began his career directing commercials and music videos through the Brooklyn-based collective Waverly Films. He directed music videos for artists including Death…