Meet Me on the Equinox

This is the lead single from the soundtrack for the Twilight sequel New Moon.

Death Cab For Cutie bassist Nick Harmer said in a statement: "We are very excited to be a part of this amazing series of novels set in our own backyard. It just seemed a perfect synergy that a band from the Northwest would create a song for a series of novels set in the Northwest." He added that the band wrote this song, "to reflect the celestial themes and motifs that run throughout the Twilight series and we wanted to capture that desperate feeling of endings and beginnings that so strongly affect the main characters. This song marks the first attempt that Death Cab for Cutie has ever made at contributing new, unreleased material for a film and we are proud to be a part of the 'Twilight' legacy."

Harmer told MTV News that this song is one the band would've been endlessly proud of even if it didn't get picked to be the lead single from the New Moon soundtrack. He explained: "We wanted to record a song that we loved and we would use on an album or anywhere and submit it to this process, and if they passed on it - if they were like, 'Hey, you know what? This isn't quite right for us, thanks a lot for trying' - we'd still have a song out that we'd be proud of, that we could put somewhere else. For us, it was a no-lose situation. What was most important for us was to get the material right first... and it tied into these films, especially New Moon, because if you strip away all the vampirism and the werewolves and the Northwest and everything, basically, the 'Twilight' series is just a big romance novel. It's a big story about love, and that's a major theme for us."