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Narrow Stairs by: Death Cab for Cutie List Price: CDN$ 19.99 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 10.49 You Save: CDN$9.50 (48%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075678994654 Label: Atlantic Manufacturer: Atlantic Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic Release Date: May 13, 2008 Studio: Atlantic Sales Rank: 81 MPN: 452796 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - disappointing.Love isn't watching someone die, contrary to what Ben Gibbard memorably sang on Death Cab for Cutie's major-label debut. No, love is watching someone grow and change and still staying with them-- whether we're talking about family, friends, romantic interests, or a little college-town indie rock band from about an hour-and-a-half outside Seattle. Death is just the dénouement. In the three years since their platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated Plans, Gibbard and Death Cab producer/guitarist Chris Walla have both entered their thirties, coming off a wave of successes that included 2003's Transatlanticism going gold and the debut by Gibbard side project the Postal Service becoming Sub Pop's best-selling disc since Nirvana. That's a ... Read More: Rating: - Death Cab trying to be Death CabI was pretty disapointed with the newest release from Death Cab for Cutie. I felt that they must have sat down and said, "ok time for a new record. No original material? um........ let's just whip up some songs that sound like us". there isn't a particular song that stands out as being superb or even particularly memorable. Maybe they used up all their good stuff on Plans. Rating:  - They have a musical palette far wider than most of their peers."Narrow Stairs" is a markedly different album to its predecessor "Plans", which went platinum in 2005. Ben Gibbard's distinctive voice is still there, but musically it's a dense, challenging affair with the layered guitars on "Bixby Canyon Bridge" and the discordant piano and bass of single "I Will Possess Your Heart" setting the tone for the whole album. Anyone expecting the lush warmth of "Plans" may be initially repelled. This follow-up is more experimental. There's still a fair complement of standard American indie-rock in songs like "No Sunlight", a catchy piece of stomp-pop that recalls their chums The Shins, and the opener "Bixby Canyon Bridge", which builds from a quiet thrumming of guitars to a vortex of sound. Read More: |
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