Editorial Product Review: :After relentless touring, performances on Saturday Night Live, and appearing on the cover of Spin and Paste Magazines, Death Cab for Cutie brings us Narrow Stairs. Following up their DVD collection, Directions, which sold over 30,000 copies and their platinum selling album, Plans, was no easy task but Narrow Stairs has already been praised by MTV.com as the band’s most daring and adventurous effort to date. Amazon.co.uk:Narrow Stairs might be the first album recorded by Death Cab for ...
Editorial Product Review: :When an indie-rock band as intimately and fiercely loved as Death Cab for Cutie makes the inevitable major-label jump, it often telegraphs a painful death. Witness Husker Du, the Replacements, Nirvana--hell, even R.E.M. After a successful four-album run on tiny Seattle imprint Barsuk, however, Death Cab for Cutie just might buck the trend on its Atlantic premiere. Yes, you can grumble about the production (a little too slick), the proportion of ballads (a little too many) and the ...
Editorial Product Review: :With songs equal to those on We Have the Facts and a lush, brilliant production that continues what The Photo Album started, Transatlanticism is easily Death Cab's best record to date. Much attention has duly been focused on doe-eyed singer/lyricist Ben Gibbard, co-star of the Postal Service phenomenon, and Ben's voice is as strange, beautiful, and as strong as ever on these songs, which deal with the difficulties of long-distance relationships. But guitarist/producer Chris Walla once again proves ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:A delicious and head-sticking mix of drummer Ben Gibbard's heartbreaking vocal melodies and reflective lyrics of transition and loss, punctuated by energized and beautiful playing from Chris Walla and Nick Harmer. Barsuk Records. :On their debut album, 1999's Something About Airplanes, Death Cab for Cutie proved there's a reason why Northwest music critics continue to sing their praises. The foursome combined the emo sounds of Modest Mouse and 764-Hero with an inventive, and often sly, sentimentality. It ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:3rd full-length from Seattle indie darlings features guest appearances by Sean Nelson, John Vanderslice & James Mendenhall ,on Barsuk Records. :Death Cab for Cutie turn difficult personal issues into literary rock songs while straddling the narrow line between blissful pop and driving indie rock. The Northwest act's songs soar high like Built to Spill's or Beulah's, and almost every track on The Photo Album is as musically bouncy and upbeat as the best of those bands. As ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:It's no exaggeration to say 'Something About Airplanes' is the future of music. Melodic pop that falls somewhere between American Analog Set & Imperial Teen. Elsinor/Barsuk. :The first instrument you notice upon listening to Something About Airplanes is the cello on 'Bend to Squares.' It fades out, soon enough replaced by the familiar electric guitar, but it sets this album's offbeat mood. Experimentation and pop hooks strike a perfect balance on this debut from the Bellingham, Washington-based ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Full Title - You Can Play These Songs With Chords. Album includes Out-Of-Print rarities and never-before released songs. 18 tracks. Barsuk Records. 2002.
Editorial Product Review: :What an amazing year for Death Cab for Cutie! After 2004s Transatlanticism burst the doors wide open for this Seattle-based indie fave, and they are now working on their first new full-length for their new deal with Atlantic (due fall 2005). In the meantime, the band and their original indie label Barsuk want to offer up a little something special for the fans that have been there since the early days. Recorded by the bearded and mysterious ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Originally released as bonus material on a limited number of CD's this EP features 3 tracks, including a Bjork cover - '20th Century Towers', 'All Is Full Of Love' (Bjork cover) & 'Stability'. Barsuk Records.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Originally released as bonus material on a limited number of CD's this EP features 3 tracks, including a Bjork cover - '20th Century Towers', 'All Is Full Of Love' (Bjork cover) & 'Stability'. Barsuk Records.
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