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Released in 2000, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes delivered on the promise of You Can Play These Songs with Chords and Something About Airplanes. For once, a band's popularity grew commensurate with its maturation. Despite the heightened attention, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben Gibbard next let loose Death Cab for Cutie's finest moment, "Photobooth," the lead track on the sparkling Forbidden Love EP. New fans worldwide swooned under its beguiling romantic rise 'n' fall and its lingering, bittersweet, wallet-sized artifact. And though it wouldn't have killed them to include "Photobooth" here -- for its spotless greatness and thematic likeness -- The Photo Album's ten tracks are of the EP's heightened caliber. Gibbard's words screen intriguing mini-films of the mind, stoked by corresponding daydreamy music. An exquisite liaison of the British penchant for ringing, knelling, subconscious guitars and direct/grittier American drive, the band is tight, evocative, and inventive. Bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Michael Schorr lock in creative rhythmic bases, while Gibbard and Chris Walla's guitar work gives the band climactic, cinematic coloring shades. And, in the end, it's Gibbard's remarkable abilities as a writer and singer that are on display most. Each word draws you in via his sweet, thoughtful guy voice. The solo 1:47 opener, "Steadier Footing," is merely a starter course, but it feels like an entrée: "And this is the chance I never got/To make a move, but we just talk" is only one measure of the chances/plans/dreams/connections and relationships that have eluded him or fizzled. Reeled in, one is left to look back over one's own smoldering wreckage, of opportunities or attachments lost -- much as "A Movie Script Ending"'s abrupt turn "Passing through unconscious states/When I awoke I was on the highway" somehow segues into the couplet "With your hands on my shoulders/A meaningless movement, a movie script ending." Like "Photobooth," it's a typically sobering, adverse assessment of how unromantic the romanticized can become. That it's a great pop song, arresting in its jerky wobble, is just another point in its, and this LP's, favor. The world needs more superb pop with brains and heart and emotional complexity.
© Jack Rabid /TiVo
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Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Producer - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Producer - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Nick Harmer, Composer - Chris Walla, Composer, Producer - Please Pass The Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Shove It Up Your Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Composer, Producer - Please Pass The Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Producer - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Producer - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Composer, Producer - Please Pass The Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Nick Harmer, Composer - Chris Walla, Composer, Producer - Please Pass The Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Shove It Up Your Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Producer - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Composer - Chris Walla, Composer, Producer - Please Pass The Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Where I'm Calling From Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
Album review
Released in 2000, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes delivered on the promise of You Can Play These Songs with Chords and Something About Airplanes. For once, a band's popularity grew commensurate with its maturation. Despite the heightened attention, singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben Gibbard next let loose Death Cab for Cutie's finest moment, "Photobooth," the lead track on the sparkling Forbidden Love EP. New fans worldwide swooned under its beguiling romantic rise 'n' fall and its lingering, bittersweet, wallet-sized artifact. And though it wouldn't have killed them to include "Photobooth" here -- for its spotless greatness and thematic likeness -- The Photo Album's ten tracks are of the EP's heightened caliber. Gibbard's words screen intriguing mini-films of the mind, stoked by corresponding daydreamy music. An exquisite liaison of the British penchant for ringing, knelling, subconscious guitars and direct/grittier American drive, the band is tight, evocative, and inventive. Bassist Nick Harmer and drummer Michael Schorr lock in creative rhythmic bases, while Gibbard and Chris Walla's guitar work gives the band climactic, cinematic coloring shades. And, in the end, it's Gibbard's remarkable abilities as a writer and singer that are on display most. Each word draws you in via his sweet, thoughtful guy voice. The solo 1:47 opener, "Steadier Footing," is merely a starter course, but it feels like an entrée: "And this is the chance I never got/To make a move, but we just talk" is only one measure of the chances/plans/dreams/connections and relationships that have eluded him or fizzled. Reeled in, one is left to look back over one's own smoldering wreckage, of opportunities or attachments lost -- much as "A Movie Script Ending"'s abrupt turn "Passing through unconscious states/When I awoke I was on the highway" somehow segues into the couplet "With your hands on my shoulders/A meaningless movement, a movie script ending." Like "Photobooth," it's a typically sobering, adverse assessment of how unromantic the romanticized can become. That it's a great pop song, arresting in its jerky wobble, is just another point in its, and this LP's, favor. The world needs more superb pop with brains and heart and emotional complexity.
© Jack Rabid /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:47
- Main artists: Death Cab For Cutie
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Barsuk Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2001 Barsuk Records 2001 Barsuk Records
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