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- "Transatlanticism" Transatlanticism (2003) "Transatlanticism" is where all of the best parts of Death Cab for Cutie come together. Across nearly eight minutes, Ben Gibbard, alone at the piano at first, unravels a passionate plea to be reunited with his love while Nick Harmer, Chris Walla and Jason McGerr patiently get louder in pitch-perfect harmony with the song's fervency.
- "Title and Registration" Transatlanticism (2003) "The glove compartment is inaccurately named and everybody knows it" might be the most banal yet most memorable opening line in the '00s indie rock universe.
- "Company Calls" / "Company Calls Epilogue" We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000) The two-parter masterpiece on Death Cab's second album visits one of Gibbard's favourite settings: a wedding, where he questions love and falling into or out of it within the context of its ultimate celebration.
- "Cath…" Narrow Stairs (2008) From the ornate, evergreen guitar riff to Gibbard's matter-of-fact lyrics about mistaken love, "Cath…" took the blueprint from the early Death Cab for Cutie days and modernized it for the huge new wave of fans that followed Plans.
- I Will Follow You Into The Dark. It’s funny to write about a song that shapes you and I do think this song has shaped me perhaps more than I’d like to previously admit.
- Transatlanticism. If you’re a Death Cab fan you knew this was coming. And you know what comes next to land number 1. It’s just the way it is. Some things in life are irrefutable and this is one of them.
- Your Heart Is an Empty Room. What track could possibly come after Death Cab’s best ever track? It’s this one. It’s warm, inviting and.. dare I say.. hopeful.
- Passenger Seat. This track takes 4th spot because it’s always been my objective personal favorite. There’s no deeper meaning with this one, no metaphors or hidden wordplay.
Jul 3, 2024 · We're ranking the best Death Cab for Cutie albums of all time. One of the best indie alternative bands, Death Cab for Cutie's discography features eight Grammy nominations. What is the greatest Death Cab for Cutie album ever? From their debut album Something About Airplanes to their 2018 album...
- I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Plans, 2005) “This song is utter perfection. I listened to this while reading one of my favorite books and I cried because of the feels that the two of them combined brought to me.
- Transatlanticism (Transatlanticism, 2003) “This song is pure despair and longing. Gibbard conveys his emotions very well in all his songs. But none more so than this one.
- Soul Meets Body (Catch and Release, 2007) “Right. So. I kind of like this girl. And, well, lets say she’s not really from around my place. And, I kind of wanted to tell her how I felt about her.
- I Will Possess Your Heart (Narrow Stairs, 2008) “Amazing song! Creepy and perfectly worded in a stalkers eye view. The music is beautiful as well. As creepy as it is, it captures the stalker view so well and the song it’s self is done to perfection how can can I not love this amazing and underrated song?!”
- Codes and Keys
- Thank You For Today
- Kintsugi
- Narrow Stairs
- Asphalt Meadows
- Something About Airplanes
- Plans
- The Photo Album
- We Have The Facts and We’Re Voting Yes
- Transatlanticism
At the time of making their seventh record, Codes and Keys, guitarist Chris Walla cited Brian Eno’s Another Green World as a reference point, which is palpable in the overall focus on sound above all else. And it’s certainly a very cool-sounding album, whether in the spacey atmosphere of opening track “Home Is a Fire,” the motorik repetition of “Do...
In a pretty literal sense, Thank You For Today captures a very different band than that of their Barsuk days — only Gibbard and bassist Nick Harmer have remained in the group since 1998’s Something About Airplanes. They’ve also embraced a more polished overall sound since then, though rarely detrimentally so. On Thank You For Today, the presence of...
Co-founder Walla, who’d produced every prior Death album, left the band before they released Kintsugi. (They recruited producer Rich Costey for the project, even though Walla played on the record.) It’s the product of a transition period, the warmly fuzzy aesthetic of their earlier records just a distant memory. And though it’s more streamlined, Ki...
There’s a certain irony about Narrow Stairs, the album following Death Cab’s then-biggest release, being so defeatedly bleak. As each of the band members had entered their 30s, the idea of adulthood being a letdown seemed to weigh heavy, and throughout the album are reminders about how much of a bummer growing up can be, whether it’s the bride maki...
When Death Cab for Cutie released “Roman Candle,” the first single from Asphalt Meadows, they issued a statement about how, despite working remotely at the beginning of COVID-19 lockdown, the album ended up being their most collaborative. They absolutely sound like a band with stronger chemistry, taut and streamlined, with songs more explicitly evo...
Gibbard has admitted that when Death Cab for Cutie released their debut album, 1998’s Something About Airplanes — which followed the You Can Play These Songs With Chords cassette, featuring lo-fi, demo-quality takes on several of these songs — he had been listening to Built to Spill’s Perfect From Now Onnonstop. The influence is fairly transparent,...
Death Cab had already made mainstream inroads before leaving indie Barsuk for major label Atlantic, making the polish of their fifth album, Plans, a logical step forward from Transatlanticism. Rather than pushing themselves into even more progressive concepts, they expanded relatively simple pop songs (“Soul Meets Body,” “Your Heart is an Empty Roo...
The progression between Death Cab for Cutie’s second and third albums seems dramatic. But it’s more the result of the latter’s heightened visibility than anything the band did deliberately. Much like We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes, The Photo Album was produced by Walla, and the songs retain their melancholy haze despite more prominent hooks...
In just over a year, Death Cab showed a remarkable growth with second album We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes. No longer quite as transparent about their Pacific Northwest indie influences, they eased into a more spacious and elegant form of songwriting just a few BPMs higher than Lowor Bedhead, and Gibbard no longer couched his lyrics in obli...
Death Cab for Cutie nearly broke up in 2001 while touring behind The Photo Album. The strain of four straight years of constant playing, writing, and recording had caught up to them, and they did the reasonable thing after the trek by taking a break. During their time apart, Gibbard worked with Jimmy Tamborello on The Postal Service’s Give Up, an e...
Chris Walla. Website. deathcabforcutie.com. Death Cab for Cutie (commonly abbreviated to DCFC or Death Cab) is an American rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997. [1] Death Cab for Cutie's music has been classified as indie rock, indie pop, and alternative rock. The band is currently composed of Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano ...
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Dec 19, 2020 · But even beyond their unique artistry, Death Cab for Cutie has transformed our understanding of what it means to connect with a song--through both moments of glory and regret, transient connections that are undeserving of flourishes of metaphor or over-dramatization and depressing tales about the anger and desperation of loss. We’ve done our best to pick 20 tracks that truly represent the ...
