Death Cab For Cutie The Photo Album LP

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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
THE PHOTO ALBUM

2001 Barsuk Records BARK21LP
Excellent title from DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE.  Everything, including all original inserts are in exceptional condition.
     disc--NM        
     cover--NM
Condition ratings based on Gold Mine Magazine ratings descriptions

2000's 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.On The Photo Album's ten tracks singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben 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 give 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-guy thoughtful 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 "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 their earlier single "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.
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Tracks
Side A
     Steadier Footing
     A Movie Script Ending
     We Laugh Indoors
     Information Travels Faster
     Why You'd Want To Live Here
     Gridlock Caravans
Side B
     Blacking Out The Friction
     I Was A Kaleidoscope
     Styrofoam Plates
     Coney Island
     Debate Exposes Doubt

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