Death Cab for Cutie - The Forbidden Love EP
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Free Music Notes for The Forbidden Love EP
Free Music Review: Appealing
Hit: 4 Stars
Unlike most EPs, none of the tracks here are clunkers. They are lyrical and, at times, touching. As a whole, Forbidden Love is better than some of Death Cab's albums (particularly Plans). I found this EP well worth the price.Free Music Review: Buy this one for "Song For Kelly Huckaby"
Hit: 3 Stars
At this point, it's nearly impossible to separate Death Cab For Cutie the band from Death Cab For Cutie the almost unbearable hype-generating machine. Not that it's their fault, since it always seemed that the indie community took it squarely upon themselves to declare Death Cab For Cutie the next "it" band, but there was a point last year where it seemed impossible to escape the spectre of We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes, an album which in all honesty didn't deserve the mountains of press it received. We Have The Facts... was a decent album, but Christopher Walla's murky production and the absence of drummer Nathan Good resulted in what was ultimately a collection of watered down songs which never managed to deliver.So now we have Death Cab For Cutie's new EP, Forbidden Love. It's a pretty typical offering for the format: three new songs and two reworked ones from the full length. But whereas normally these sorts of releases could be generally ignored by the non-fanatics, there's a real eyebrow-raiser here in "Song For Kelly Huckaby," a song which gets everything right that was botched on the full length. Walla's production is crisp and direct, helping his guitars and Good's drums bring the force and immediacy that was so desperately needed. And for all of the yearning and unrequited love which dominates Walla's songwriting, "Song For Kelly Huckaby" even manages to best everything he's done before. Reminiscence never sounded so good, as Walla avoids much of the acrimony which never rang true on We Have The Facts... Opening with the words "Photographs from the past" could have set "Kelly Huckaby" up as cliche, but every line here perfectly, almost poetically, captures the tangled feelings of regret and retrospection.
The rest of the album is pretty forgettable in comparison. "Photobooth" is good; "Technicolor Girls" isn't. Then there's the acoustic version of "405" and a re-engineered "Company Calls Epilogue," neither of which offers anything really new over the original versions. And there it is. As its own cycle of songs, The Forbidden Love EP isn't anything special, but as a vehicle for the superb "Song For Kelly Huckaby," it's a success.
Free Music Review: Great beginning, typical ep trappings end
Hit: 3 Stars
3 1/2
Great first half, captures Deathcab doing what they do best, much less effortlessly then in recent times. Last few songs die down a bit since the last is just an alternate, which makes this essential for fans, but not everyone, although quite good ep.
Free Music Review: Forbidden love by death cab for cutie
Hit: 1 Stars
The cd I recieved was crushed, the disc was scratched just to start with. The company I recieved the disc from said I could return the disc which was suppose to be "new" and in good condition.NOT Anyway I am sorry I ever went down this "FORBIDDEN" path