Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
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Artist: Death Cab for CutieEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Barsuk
Soundtracks:
- Steadier Footing
- A Movie Script Ending
- We Laugh Indoors
- Information Travels Faster
- Why You'd Want To Live Here
- Blacking Out The Friction
- I Was A Kaleidoscope
- Styrofoam Plates
- Coney Island
- Debate Exposes Doubt
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Free Music Review: Catchy melodies, personal lyrics
Hit: 4 Stars
I knew that DCFC was an indie rock band that had received a lot of favorable reviews from the critics. I had listened to Transatlanticism and Plans in the past and thought that they were all right but not especially memorable. Even so, I picked up The Photo Album when I saw it in a sale bin. Unlike my previous experiences listening to DCFC, The Photo Album immediately grabbed my attention with its catchy melodies and personal lyrics. Several other reviewers mentioned how the drums are given a very central role in the music, which I liked a lot. I highly recommend this CD and plan to go back and give Transatlantacism and Plans a couple of more listens.
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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 catchy as the songs on The Photo Album may be, though, it's really front man Benjamin Gibbard's comfort with laying his emotional issues bare that makes this an excellent album. "Styrofoam Plates" is the most stunning track, with words that leave chills long after they've disappeared. As Gibbard sings about anger for a dead father ("It's not quite a stretch to say you were not quite a father / But a donor of seeds to a poor single mother / That would raise us alone / We never saw the money / It went down your throat down the hole in your belly"), his stark honesty makes this dysfunctional family story the most compelling piece of this album. The other issues of clumsy relationships pale a little in comparison, but The Photo Album still leaves little doubt that Death Cab deserve all the indie rock accolades they have received. --Jennifer Maerz
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