The Sound of Settling

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"The Sound of Settling"
Single by Death Cab for Cutie
from the album Transatlanticism
Released	December 26, 2005
Format	CD, 7"
Recorded	Spring 2003
Genre	Indie rock
Length	2:12
Label	Fierce Panda
Producer(s)	Chris Walla
Death Cab for Cutie singles chronology
"The New Year" (2003)	"The Sound of Settling" (2004)	"Title and Registration" (2004)

The Sound of Settling is Death Cab for Cutie's sixth single release (counting the Stability single and EP) and also the second single from Transatlanticism. It is an upbeat tune with a chorus of onomatopoeias (Bop ba! Bop Ba!).

The video begins with a picture frame containing a picture of green velvet curtains, the camera zooms out, and the picture frame is in a picture in a picture frame, the cycle then repeats itself, adding in the members of the band and others dressed up as old people, pastry chefs, gingerbread men, surgeons, themselves, and more. It also includes other people, like breakdancers.

Death Cab for Cutie
Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Nick Harmer | Jason McGerr Nathan Good | Michael Schorr
Discography
Albums: You Can Play These Songs with Chords (cassette, 1997) | Something About Airplanes (1998) | We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) | The Photo Album (2001) | You Can Play These Songs with Chords (re-release, 2002) | Transatlanticism (2003) | Plans (2005)
EPs: The Forbidden Love E.P. (2000) | The Stability E.P. (2002) | Studio X Sessions E.P. (2004) | The John Byrd E.P. (2005)
Singles: "A Movie Script Ending" (2002) | "Stability" (2002) | "I Was a Kaleidoscope" (2002) | "We Laugh Indoors" (2002) | "The New Year" (2003) | "The Sound of Settling" (2004) | "Title and Registration" (2004) | "Soul Meets Body" (2005) | "Crooked Teeth" (2006) | "I Will Follow You into the Dark" (2006)
Other releases: iTunes Originals - Death Cab for Cutie (2005)
Filmography
Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (2005) | Directions (2006)
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