(Atlantic) Its nearly precisely 20 years since Death Cab for Cutie released their first album,Something approximately Airplanes, on the tiny Barsuk label. The intervening years saw them sign to a major label, or get nominated for Grammys and become poster boys for canvas-haversack-toting mopey emo kids everywhere. But nine albums in,and Ben Gibbard and co are no longer kids themselves, and their nostalgia has a decidedly autumnal feel. Gibbard can recall being 22 and “Trying so hard to play it cool” (60 & Punk), or reflects that “Sometimes I’m overcome by every choice I couldn’t outrun” (Summer Years). The dilemmas that are faced are adult ones: “I don’t need you to be honest / Or to be faithful to the cessation / I just need you to be always a friend,” Gibbard sings on When We Drive. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com