Ben Gibbard is working on his only side project since the unanimously indie-praised The Postal Service. This time, he’s duo-ing with Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar. Their collaboration started as song writing for a new Jack Kerouac doc called One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur but the chemistry must’ve been there because a collection of songs resulted. The full length album will have the same name as the movie as well as the same release date of October 20. Trailer and a music video for the song ‘San Francisco’ at the official site.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road:
“They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.”
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