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New Death Cab For Cutie Single - GLORIOUS!

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    #32
    ianthefox
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭ianthefox


    Heard the new album today. Some amazing tracks on it, some not so much. The opening track is so good.

    PM me if you also want to hear it ;)


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    #33
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,806 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    How pissed was I that I was heading away for a weekend and only noticed my Zen wouldn't play the format the album was ripped in! :(

    Just started listening now and Bixby Canyon Bridge is amazing!

    Will be back with full opinions later.


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    #34
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Meh to Plans tbh. Found it very boring.

    Photo Album ftw.


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    #35
    ianthefox
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭ianthefox


    It's definitely all about We Have the Facts... and Transatlanticism.


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    #36
    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    I haven't listened to their earlier stuff but Narrow Stairs sounds pretty good. Particurly like No Sunlight and Long Division.


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    #37
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,806 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Orizio wrote: »
    I haven't listened to their earlier stuff but Narrow Stairs sounds pretty good. Particurly like No Sunlight and Long Division.
    Gave it a listen while playing GTA IV.

    Was a bit distracted while listening - but 'No Sunlight' is a blinding little track alright.. as is 'Bixby Canyon Bridge' (probably my favourite on the album).


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    #38
    eire1
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭eire1


    Should be a deadly album, what I've heard so far is all deadly stuff.
    Roll on Friday :)


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    #39
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    The song Pity and Fear sounds awesome but the version I have must be faulty. It cuts out fater 4:20 :/


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    #40
    ianthefox
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭ianthefox


    Supposedly it's meant to end like that.

    I think it sounds ****.


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    #41
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    ianthefox wrote: »
    Supposedly it's meant to end like that.

    I think it sounds ****.
    I'd be gutted if it did end like that. The song has such potential. Everytime I listen to it and get cut off I feel ill.


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    #42
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,806 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Wasn't too fond of the new album at first to be honest.. but it definitely grows on you with repeated listens.


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    #43
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,360 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Bixby, wow.


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    #44
    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    The album is fairly average


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    #45
    pariko
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭pariko


    Wow... IWPYH is amazing, but the record is a TOTAL let-down. I'd foolishly gotten my hopes up on the basis of the single and all the hype spearheaded by that MTV article*, but all this talk of it being their edgiest and rawest offering yet has turned out to be bollocks - as one of my buddies said earlier, aside from IWPYH it sounds like a bunch of b-sides. Not the dark, spaced out departure from their usual sound that I was expecting.

    * There's something really fishy about that re-reading it now actually, as in after listening to the record it reads like it's just part of Atlantic's promo budget - the premise of the article is that it's some dude who's always hated the band but has been converted by this record because "none of it sounds like anything DCFC have ever done". That's bollocks unless you've just heard Plans and nothing else.

    "After hearing Narrow Stairs earlier this week, it turns out that everything I had known about Death Cab was wrong. They are actually a really great band, and Stairs is unquestionably the best thing they've ever done." - F*ck sake.

    This is the article I'm talking about by the way.


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    #46
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,806 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Rolling Stone also gave it 4 / 5 (the best rating they have given a Death Cab album).

    Rolling stone review here!


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    #47
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Just gave it a first listen there and I actually quite like it. It's definitely listenable. Needs a bit more of an airing though before I can give it a fair critique.


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    #48
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,360 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Just gave it a first listen there and I actually quite like it. It's definitely listenable. Needs a bit more of an airing though before I can give it a fair critique.

    I'm with Xavi on this one.

    And i'm also glad it#s different to previous albums, i am always glad to see bands try something new. I hate safe albums.


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    #49
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,360 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Bixby is ****ing amazing.


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    #50
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Right after giving it a good ten listens or so I still really like it. In fact I'd say it's bloody excellent. A definite 8 out of 10 for me and that could rise to a 9 shortly.


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    #51
    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    A couple of more listens. Its fine, there is nothing wrong with it. A couple of good tracks, but for the most part its forgettable and mediocre.

    I'd rather listen to Spoon really. ;)


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    #52
    eire1
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭eire1


    I think it's a great album, the likes of Grapevine.
    Cath... is my favourite though


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    #53
    Bubs101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Orizio wrote: »
    A couple of more listens. Its fine, there is nothing wrong with it. A couple of good tracks, but for the most part its forgettable and mediocre.

    I'd rather listen to Spoon really. ;)

    I agree. I thought it was great at first but now it just seems very very bland and kind of forced if anything. IWPYH is starting to grate on me. 4 minutes is too long for no climax. Bixby bridge really isn't that good. It's certainly no Gagaga


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    #54
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Had a couple of listens to this now and really like it so far. Not as inconsistent as Plans (although still a few lulls in the middle) and a lot of really strong songs - first two especially (I even find myself humming that damn bassline).


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    #55
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Mr.S wrote: »
    am i the only one who doesnt like the track? its just so bland for deathcab =/
    Seconded. Not a patch on anything from Plans or Transatlanticism, or even Something About Airplanes for that matter. Really poor.

    Haven't heard the rest of the album tho so I'll reserve judgement on that score...


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    #56
    jmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭jmc


    Album has just gone No.1 in both the U.S. and Canada. Fair play the lads!


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    #57
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,806 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Fair play to the lads indeed.

    Album has really warmed on me.. the only real weak song on it is 'Talking Bird' in my honest opinion.


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    #58
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,184 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    basquille wrote: »
    Fair play to the lads indeed.

    Album has really warmed on me.. the only real weak song on it is 'Talking Bird' in my honest opinion.

    I'd say I really like around half the album - Bixby, IWPYH, No Sunlight, Grapevine and Long Division -, could take or leave some - Cath..., Pity and Fear - and dislike one or two - again, probably Talking Bird. After a few listens, I think it gains the same reaction from me as Plans (despite earlier listenings being more favourable): some fantastic songs, and other mediocre ones.


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    #59
    johnny-fatality
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭johnny-fatality


    getting the album on the basis of this song, I wouldnt be a big Death Cab fan , but
    i like that you can listen to this song and drift away, all music shouldn't be in-your-face-look-at-me-this-song-is-so-feckin-cool all the time!
    ( although ya gotta rock n roll every now and then too :D )


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    #60
    StonedParadoX
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    lads
    i dont think you guys realise how happy you have made me feel right now
    i heard this on the radio LAST WEEK in a shop and i thought i'd rememeber the name when the dj said it but i odviously didnt
    So i went lookin for it and none of you's knew what i meant in that big topic about finding songs and ****
    then i accidently enter here and BAM

    maaaaan .. this song is ****ing amazing it really is

    its just so EPIC

    i love the OP i love you guys and i love the world

    can u tell how happy i am : D

    thanks all


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    #61
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,861 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Just got my ticket to go see Death Cab here in Perth in August!!!! Woohoo!!!! Can't feckin wait.


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