For the past few years, Death Cab for Cutie fans have been patiently awaiting guitarist Chris Walla’s solo album release. But it turns out that they’ll now have to wait just a little bit longer. But don’t blame Walla – blame George Bush.

Homeland Security (you remember, that whole ‘weapons of mass destruction’ thing) confiscated Walla’s hard drive, containing his collection of unreleased tunes, from a courier attempting to take it across the boarder to Canada. According to Walla, the reason was undetermined. They then sent it to a Homeland Security tech centre to have a team of computer experts and analysts further investigate it.

First Iraq – and now this!

“It’s a true story. Barsuk [the record company putting out his album] had hired a courier — who does international stuff all the time and who they had used before — to bring [the album] back from Canada, where I was working on it. And he got to the border and he had all his paperwork and it was all cool, only they turned him away, and they confiscated the drive and gave it to the computer-forensics division of our Homeland Security-type people,” Walla told MTV News in an exclusive interview.

Walla hopes to have his solo album back on track and ready to go by January.






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