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Props to Zooey Deschanel for finally cheering Ben Gibbard up. On Narrow Stairs, the Death Cab frontman sang songs like “You Could Do Better Than Me” and “Pity and Fear,” filling the album with the sort of articulate, hyper-literate gloominess you might expect from a depressed poetry major. Codes and Keys, released three years after Narrow Stairs and two years after his marriage to Deschanel, paints a brighter picture. Gone are the breakup ballads, the odes to lost love, the down-in-the-dumps sentiment that filled most of Death Cab’s earlier work. Instead, the album offers up a handful of odes to the sunny side of life. Gibbard alludes to his wife often, referencing her retro charm on “Morning Morning” (“She may be young but she only likes old things/And modern music, it ain’t to her tastes”) and laying out a plan for the rest of their married life with “Doors Unlocked and Open” (“We’ll live in slow motion and be free/with doors unlocked and open”). Beneath his vocals, more changes are taking place: a move away from guitar-based song arrangements, a stronger emphasis on keyboards, a willingness to explore the electro-acoustic link between Death Cab and the Postal Service, Gibbard’s most famous side-project. Codes and Keys still sounds like a Death Cab album, but the guys explore the benefits of the recording studio more than ever before, boosting Jason McGerr’s drums with bits of programmed percussion and scaling back their guitar riffs to sparse, articulate clumps of notes that ring out into the ether. There’s a new-found emphasis on open space, on electronics, on Kid A-inspired webs of feedback and distortion that are draped behind the songs like ambient backdrops. It’s not all machines and Eno-esque production -- a simple barroom piano opens up the title track, and “Stay Young, Go Dancing” (whose title would’ve seemed far out of place on any other Death Cab record) begins with an acoustic guitar -- but Codes and Keys certainly emphasizes the “studio” in “studio album,” focusing as much on the music’s presentation as its content. Luckily, there’s enough genuine melody at the core of these songs to warrant their arrangements.
© Andrew Leahey /TiVo
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Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Chris Walla, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - Beau Sorenson, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer - Jory Fankuchen, Strings - Liana Berube, Strings - Magik*Magik Orchestra, Strings - Michelle Kwon, Strings - Minna Choi, String Arranger, Strings Conductor - Philip Brezina, Strings
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Chris Walla, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Chris Walla, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Lead Vocals, Writer, Performance - ALAN MOULDER, MixingEngineer - Catherine Marks, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Beau Sorenson, RecordingEngineer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Background Vocals, Performance, RecordingEngineer - Jason McGerr, Drums - Nicholas Harmer, Bass Guitar - John Catlin, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Roger Siebel, MasteringEngineer - Jory Fankuchen, Strings - Liana Berube, Strings - Magik*Magik Orchestra, Strings - Michelle Kwon, Strings - Minna Choi, String Arranger, Strings Conductor - Philip Brezina, Strings
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation
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Props to Zooey Deschanel for finally cheering Ben Gibbard up. On Narrow Stairs, the Death Cab frontman sang songs like “You Could Do Better Than Me” and “Pity and Fear,” filling the album with the sort of articulate, hyper-literate gloominess you might expect from a depressed poetry major. Codes and Keys, released three years after Narrow Stairs and two years after his marriage to Deschanel, paints a brighter picture. Gone are the breakup ballads, the odes to lost love, the down-in-the-dumps sentiment that filled most of Death Cab’s earlier work. Instead, the album offers up a handful of odes to the sunny side of life. Gibbard alludes to his wife often, referencing her retro charm on “Morning Morning” (“She may be young but she only likes old things/And modern music, it ain’t to her tastes”) and laying out a plan for the rest of their married life with “Doors Unlocked and Open” (“We’ll live in slow motion and be free/with doors unlocked and open”). Beneath his vocals, more changes are taking place: a move away from guitar-based song arrangements, a stronger emphasis on keyboards, a willingness to explore the electro-acoustic link between Death Cab and the Postal Service, Gibbard’s most famous side-project. Codes and Keys still sounds like a Death Cab album, but the guys explore the benefits of the recording studio more than ever before, boosting Jason McGerr’s drums with bits of programmed percussion and scaling back their guitar riffs to sparse, articulate clumps of notes that ring out into the ether. There’s a new-found emphasis on open space, on electronics, on Kid A-inspired webs of feedback and distortion that are draped behind the songs like ambient backdrops. It’s not all machines and Eno-esque production -- a simple barroom piano opens up the title track, and “Stay Young, Go Dancing” (whose title would’ve seemed far out of place on any other Death Cab record) begins with an acoustic guitar -- but Codes and Keys certainly emphasizes the “studio” in “studio album,” focusing as much on the music’s presentation as its content. Luckily, there’s enough genuine melody at the core of these songs to warrant their arrangements.
© Andrew Leahey /TiVo
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- 1 disco(s) - 11 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:44:56
- Artistas principales: Death Cab For Cutie
- Sello: ATLANTIC RECORDS
- Género Pop/Rock Rock Alternativa & Indie
© 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States ℗ 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
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