Death Cab For Cutie

Something About Airplanes

Death Cab take many of the songs from their very good demo debut and add a few more for a great debut studio album. Its like a bluepriny for what was to come with a short 10 song tracklist and a great presence.

[July Challenge] July 6

In the words of Alphaville, "Heaven can wait."
When I was young, I boarded an airplane for the first time to reach a place somewhere very far. As the hours passed by, I looked outside the windows with the thought of the heavens residing deep in the clouds. As a child, I looked at the vast stratosphere wondering about the future that was waiting for me on my destination. There was also one thing on my mind: Is this how I die? On my first few rides, there was ... read more

Death Cab For Cutie have become my new indie rock obsession as of late, and so with a new album on the horizon I figured now is as good a time as any to express my newfound love for this band by covering their entire discography. None of that half-baked first reaction bullshit. This is gonna take a while.

Our story begins in 1997 in Bellingham, Washington, right at the tail end of what I like to call the 'E-standard Midwest' scene, where the indie rock bands were doing their damnedest to ... read more

Happier sounding Deathconsciousness.