(antiMusic) Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla hit a bit of a snag while recording his new solo album 'field manual'. It appears that while the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department is completely inept at keeping millions of people from entering the country illegally, they have no problem keeping the biggest threat to national security from coming in... music!Walla's new album is due out January 29, 2008 but according to his label, the Feds have done their part to keep that happening. Barsuk Records reports that "the project hit an unexpected snag when a data hard drive containing critical album files was confiscated by U.S. Customs. The drive was held 'to be analyzed' for several weeks on its way back into the U.S. prior to final mixing of the album. Interestingly, a strong political thread runs through the record's lyrics; Walla takes more than a few shots at US policy, both at home and abroad, and challenges at least one senator to find the exit door.... For whatever reason, the drive has still not been returned."
But Walla won't let a little thing like the U.S. government keep him getting his album done. Barsuk Records says that " Despite delays in meeting his production schedule, Walla has finally begun putting the finishing touches on the album during breaks between his other commitments (using a back-up hard drive that was successfully shipped into the US following the seizure of the first drive.)" Walla should have just told them that he was bringing in toxic toys from China and he wouldn't have had these problems. - more on this story
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