Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
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Artist: Death Cab for CutieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Deluxe Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-11-25
Music Label: Barsuk
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- bend to squares
- president of what?
- champagne from a paper cup
- your bruise
- pictures in an exhibition
- sleep spent
- the face that launched 1000 sh#ts
- amputations
- fake frowns
- line of best fit
- your bruise
- president of what?
- fake frowns
- sweet and tender hooligan (feat. sean nelson)
- state street residential
- amputations
- pictures in an exhibition
Free Music Notes for Something About Airplanes
Free Music Review: I'm a fan, don't read my review
Hit: 5 Stars
Seriously, I like the band, I bought the CD, I like the CD. What do you expect?
Now, it'd be REALLY telling, if I like the band and hate the CD. That'd be positively bad for them. "What are you trying to do, lose fans?" -- but this is not the case, I like this CD. :) If I didn't know I already own it, I'd buy it again. (He's a good reason to buy physical CDs, if your memory sucks, you may need a physical reminder.)
OK, now the bad news: Even though I'm a fan and I like the CD, if you played a random collection of DCfC songs and I was supposed to guess which CD it was from. NOPE. sorry. :(
-r
(That's bad news, because if this were somehow a really stand-out CD, I'd recognize all the tracks as belonging to this CD. I can totally do that with some, though not many, artists. I'm not going to mention them, because that seems highly inappropriate. If you're interested, and I don't see why you would be, you can read my other reviews.)
-=-
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Barsuk Records and Death Cab for Cutie celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's classic debut studio album with this deluxe reissue. Still considered by many fans to be DCfC's best album, but criminally unheard by many newer converts other than the handful of songs that remain staples of the band's live set (Amputations, Pictures In An Exhibition, Fake Frowns), Something About Airplanes is not just a document of a particular time in the band's history or of a bygone era of indie-rock it's an enduring work featuring some of the band's finest songs. Includes the band's first Seattle live show on a separate disc.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 Death Cab for Cutie. The quartet follow in the fine tradition of area emo-pop bands like Modest Mouse, 764-HERO, and Built to Spill, but it's hard not to notice bits of Quasi and the Beatles popping up. Of course, the Death Cab formula is a bit different--"President of What?" is driven by Farfisa, not Fender; "Champagne from a Paper Cup" is a slow-burner--there's not much pop glee found in a song that begins "I think I'm Drunk Enough to Drive You Home Now"; and--every once in a while--the oddball vocal sample kicks in (presumably from a long-forgotten movie, a la vintage Jawbreaker). It all makes for a brilliant debut and a fine addition to the canon of Northwest emo-pop late-'90s style. --Jason Verlinde
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