Welcome back to music exploration with me. Today we have Death Cab for Cutie, one of those indie bands who make music as if they were a radio-friendly, major label band. Forming in the late '90s, Death Cab have spent the last six years quickly rising up as one of the most notable and popular bands in the indie world. This summer saw the release of Plans, the band's departure from the indie world and Barsuk label into major label print.
As you'll soon hear, one of my favorite things about the music are their songs with supermelodic instrumental layers. And their 2000 album, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, is one of my favorite album titles.
Here are my four favorite songs by Death Cab for Cutie from their last four albums (in order of favorite). I find Title and Registration particularly notable. It's an excellent song all around, awesome multilayered instrumental, but it also goes about break-up in an interesting way. It starts right off with a line saying 'glove compartment' isn't a good name for the glove compartment ("'cause behind it's door, there's nothing to keep my fingers warm"). In the next section, the singer tells how he rediscovers pictures found within a glove compartment that remind him of better times before a break-up, and this is how he comes to think that the glove compartment, rather scornfully, should be renmaed.
After listening to all four, I think they're all okay. #1 has a good beat and the beat seems to overpower the words. #2 has a lonesome country sound to it. #3 is good and has a ballard style to it. #4 has a really smooth sound and the beat is sorta laid back and mellow. Overall, pretty good picks.
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