Kintsugi really runs the gamut from stuff I absolutely love (the first four tracks) to stuff I think is dogshit (“El Dorado,” maybe their worst song).
I like like half of Kintsugi. The middle is pretty damn dull if I recall, but I also haven't listened in a while.
I really don’t like the run of “Everything’s a Ceiling,” “Good Help,” and “El Dorado.” Everything else is good to great, but those three songs really hurt the record for me.
"Everything's a Ceiling" is probably my second favourite song they've done since Narrow Stairs. Always felt like that was super underrated.
I really enjoy Kintsugi, it came out my last semester of college so I’ve got a lot of bittersweet memories associated with it. Only thing I don’t love is Hold No Guns coming right after You’ve Haunted Me All My Life. Everything’s a Ceiling is the other song that’s just ok for me but I’m huge on the rest.
Kintsugi is actually a perfect record you’re all wrong it came out right when I had my last break up and I was 18 so I’ll always be attached to it lol
No Room in Frame is an all-timer by them. Beverly Drive is also great, I think Little Wanderer is pretty underrated, Black Sun is good, that’s all I care about on the record.
I LOVE Kintsugi so I don’t know if I would take Codes and Keys over that but I will say that I revisit songs off the latter far more than anything on Kintsugi. Doors Unlocked and Open? Come on. COME AHHHHHHNNNNNN
An album with the best stuff from C&K, Kintsugi, and TYFT would be just as good as anything else they’ve done
idk, I think it would still be significantly weaker than their 2000's albums, especially Trans and Plans.
I actually don’t think I have ever listened to kintsugi besides the singles—will need to change that soon
honest question not only to you but basically to any user who makes a comment such as the one in quoting here - do you simply remember this type of info offhand? Or did you just listen to the album and then make your post? Or look at the song titles as a refresher? I’m always blown away when people make a post such as this because I can’t remember shit and people are just fuckin’ snipering out the songs they love or hate or didn’t care for and there are very, very few artists I could do that for lol
I listened to that album a ton back in 2015. Liked it more then than I do now, but it's definitely a record I wrote about at the time, and I think I maybe put it in the lower reached of my end-of-the-decade list. Death Cab is also one of those bands whose stuff I just revisit semi-often, even the albums I like a little less, so I remember most of their song titles.