Japanese subtitles for 'Punching the Flowers', with Osaka on fans' minds

Three songs from I Built You A Tower went up with Japanese lyrics on the same day, ahead of the band's shows in Japan.

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【日本語字幕】Death Cab for Cutie - Punching the Flowers

Why would Death Cab for Cutie's official channel post three songs in one go, all with the same Japanese brackets in front of the title? The descriptions answer it: each one carries a full Japanese translation of the lyrics, and the first points listeners toward tickets for the band's visit to Japan.

The songs all come from I Built You A Tower, the new album out on ANTI- Records. "Punching the Flowers" is the full music video, directed and edited by Jason Lester, with choreography by Masha Cherezova and six dancers. "Riptides" arrives with its own production crew in the credits, and "Stone Over Water" is an animated video directed by Sean Solomon. The album was produced and engineered by John Congleton, the Texas producer whose credits run from St. Vincent to Angel Olsen.

"Punching the Flowers" drew the most attention, a little over 5,000 views in its first 19 hours, with "Riptides" just behind. Its comment section reads like a travel plan: several viewers write in Japanese that they are going to the Osaka show and have been playing the album on repeat to get ready, and one simply says Tokyo is waiting. Another viewer asks, half joking, whether the video could really have been shot in Walla Walla.

About a thousand new subscribers arrived over the week. Among the rock bands nearest the channel in size, The Drums and Architects had far busier weeks, but for a band from Bellingham nearly thirty years in, the Japanese lyric sheets are the real news.

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【日本語字幕】Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides4,997 views · 2026-10-08 【日本語字幕】Death Cab for Cutie - Stone Over Water3,762 views · 2026-10-08

The numbers

Here is how Death Cab for Cutie's channel moved this week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

The Drums

4,008,706

Architects

2,640,893

Sleep Theory

1,749,100

Danny Elfman

890,543

Parkway Drive

668,391

Jamie Robinson

304,658

Death Cab for Cutie

0

Social Distortion

0

ParticleMen

0

subscribers

325,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

272,206,204

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Drums

496,000

Architects

392,000

Death Cab for Cutie

325,000

Jamie Robinson

299,000

Parkway Drive

296,000

Sleep Theory

238,000

Social Distortion

224,000

ParticleMen

204,000

Danny Elfman

194,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.