Plans (CD)
#5 Seller of 2005! Death Cab For Cutie presents: Plans. Produced by Death Cab's own Christopher Walla and recorded in upstate NY and Seattle, Plans is the first release for DCFC on Atlantic Records. They have delivered a brilliant album, 11-tracks of pure indie pop that will further prove that Ben Gibbard and crew just can't do wrong.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Marching Bands of Manhattan |
| 2 | Soul Meets Body |
| 3 | Summer Skin |
| 4 | Different Names for the Same Thing |
| 5 | I Will Follow You into the Dark |
| 6 | Your Heart Is an Empty Room |
| 7 | Someday You Will Be Loved |
| 8 | Crooked Teeth |
| 9 | What Sarah Said |
| 10 | Brothers on a Hotel Bed |
| 10 | Brothers on a Hotel Bus |
| 11 | Stable Song |
| Ryan Goldman
- Washington, DC, USA |
| In this corner, sporting the yellow-and-green trunks and hailing from Bellingham, Washington, we have the bashful boys of Death Cab for Cutie. The appeal and trajectory of DCFC parallels--and is in large part a result of--the growing popularity of youth-dominated communities, both real and artifice, like MySpace.com and, well, high school. For most of the past decade, the newest and most sales-worthy American music trends seemed born in Middle School®. Ten years before that, most music bucks matriculated in CollegeTM. Now, the most important demographic to predicting and paying for pop-culture trends is older than tween but younger than twenty, responsible for successes like the Bait Shop and Under the Cork Tree. Among pre-frosh today, Death Cab means something more than earnest lyrics and jangly pop--it's a phenomenon of generation and identity and a community (with its own language, art, and economy) unto itself. | |