Northern Lights (Death Cab for Cutie song)

"Northern Lights" is a song recorded by the American rock band Death Cab for Cutie for their seventh studio album, Thank You for Today (2018).

"Northern Lights" is one of many tracks on Thank You for Today that coincidentally use seasons as metaphors for titles, alongside "Summer Years" and "Autumn Love".

[3] In writing the track, Gibbard wanted to "write a song that was like a John Hughes movie that takes place in my hometown, about two people in this suburban wasteland with nothing to do who spend their time on this body of water, one pining for the other, yet both knowing that this place will be a temporary stop in a much longer life.

"[10] Kory Grow of Rolling Stone considered it evocative of Joy Division or U2,[11] and Jeff Terich at Spin felt it more vital or "immediate" than other moments on the album.

[12] Ian Cohen, writing for Uproxx, opined that the song was "the least grating but also the most anodyne single" the band could have picked for the LP.