Death Cab's autotune campaign

9 February 2009 10:06am

Death Cab For Cutie have organised a mock-political campaign against 'autotune abuse in music'.

The indie rock four-piece turned up to the Grammy Awards wearing blue ribbons pinned to their jackets, which they said was to raise awareness for their campaign.

"Autotuning is a digital manipulation, a correction of a singer's voice that is affecting literally thousands of singers today and thousands of records that are coming out," said the group's frontman, Ben Gibbard. "So we just want to raise awareness while we're here and try to bring back the blue note... The note that's not so perfectly in pitch and just gives the recording some soul and some kind of real character.

"It's how people really sing."

Death Cab for Cutie was nominated for best alternative music album.

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