the more post rock it is the more likely i am to like a death cab song. the record sucks but i kinda think "i will possess your heart" crushes, embarrassing gibbard cliches and all
chairkicker wrote:the more post rock it is the more likely i am to like a death cab song. the record sucks but i kinda think "i will possess your heart" crushes, embarrassing gibbard cliches and all
I still spin Something About Airplanes and We Have The Facts. The Photo Album is a little too on the nose and everything after that I just can't get past the image of Ben Gibbard drinking and housing a whole pizza.
"the new year" has got to be the best track on transatlanticism. that's just good space rock. i'm not a fan of that record, though. "lightness" and "we looked like giants" are pretty alright too
back in the early days of the iphone there was this guitar hero esque rhythm game i remember playing a ton that had the sound of settling as one of the three free tracks in the game so i would play just this song constantly throughout my freshman year of college
"plans" has always been my death cab album of choice though
pre transatlanticism, 90s indie rock pastiche. post transatlanticism, kitsch. but transatlanticism? cringe. and cringe is the necessary precondition of great art
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Movie Script Ending is the only song I ever liked by them. They always kinda just seemed to be aping a bunch of bands without doing any of it particularly well.
Probably the most jading thing about growing older is seeing wave after wave of hype bands that are just doing shitty knockoffs of older artists and learning to accept that people are gonna lose their shit over extremely mediocre pastiches and there's no use fussing about it.
I like A Movie Script Ending until it gets to the "highway" part, it always throws me way off. How many times do you need to tell us you were on the highway Ben
is this band not balm for people that were in their very early teen/pre-pubescent years and discovering indie adjacent music. i would say it was the postal service first. but i hear any of this stuff and i get all balmy.
I might've been too old, or I was just influenced by a much older crowd. My sister introduced me to stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel, REM, Hayden, Red House Painters, and a bunch of other stuff in that vein, and I don't think she was ever too much into Death Cab, so my vector into indie was through Elephant Six-adjacent bands, 4AD, grunge, and then all the punk and '70/'80s art rock/post-punk stuff that I was mining on my own time, which led to shoegaze, IDM, trip hop, and indie/backpack hip hop for the rest of my late teens