Ben Gibbard on Honoring Yoko Ono's Legacy

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Yoko Ono turned 89 last Friday, the same day a new covers album of her music was released. The album was curated by Ben Gibbard and features artists like Japanese Breakfast, Sharon Van Etten, and David Byrne.

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Yoko Ono turned 89 last Friday, the same day a new covers album of her music was released titled Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, out now via Canvasback-Atlantic Record. The album was curated by Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and features artists like Japanese Breakfast, Sharon Van Etten, and David Byrne.

Gibbard talks about how Yoko Ono's work has been overlooked and that he hopes this tribute album "is not just a reevaluation but an evaluation" of her work as an artist and songwriter.

“This is an incredibly talented woman who mastered multiple mediums in a way that I can’t think of another artist in the 20th century doing and one component of her work that has been wildly overlooked is her songwriting,” Gibbard says.

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