Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:26 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
American indie-rock legends Death Cab for Cutie release an all-new acoustic edition of their tenth studio album Asphalt Meadows. Co-produced by Andy Park (Pedro the Lion, Joseph, Noah Gunderson) and Death Cab for Cutie, the new release sees the band presenting stripped-down takes on each of the original album’s tracks.
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Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:44 minutes | Scans included | 771 MB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 909 MB
US underground sensations’ fourth studio album is truly a major work, blending subtle intelligent songwriting, amazing production, boundless creativity, and thoughtful rock. This is their best offering to date – dreamy and lovelorn in places, but also epic, gritty and twisted in others.
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Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes (2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:52 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Barsuk Records
Released in 2000, We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes is the second studio album by Death Cab for Cutie, and is considered to be a landmark indie rock album of the early 2000s.
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Death Cab for Cutie – The Photo Album (2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:55 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Barsuk Records
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
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