Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard have linked up for a new song, “Only Love.” The song dropped with a visualizer by Scott Hansen, the creator behind Tycho.

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The two Grammy-nominated artists, Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard, best known as the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie, have teamed for the new song “Only Love.”

“Only Love” was born of an invitation from Gibbard to remix Death Cab’s 2015 single, “The Ghosts of Beverly Hills,” according to a press release. In a statement, Tycho said of the new single:

“Only Love” started life as an instrumental, but something was missing. I sent a rough demo to Ben and he recorded some vocals over it. The first time I heard the rough vocals the whole song suddenly made sense and the arrangement flowed out of that. After my early experimentations with vocals on Weather, this felt like a great opportunity to put everything I had learned during that process into practice. It was certainly an honor to be able to work with such an iconic voice.

Equally enthusiastic, Gibbard saw “Only Love” as the perfect fit for a statement he had been wanting to make about environmental issues and preservation. He shared that “the only way we preserve the people, places or things we care about is with love, not hatred.”

Last year, Benjamin Gibbard revived the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights” in honor of the United States Postal Service. 

Tycho released his newest album Simulcast last March, an instrumental counterpart to 2019’s Weather.