Easily my favourite first listen of a Death Cab album since Kintsugi, and I can see it potentially becoming my favourite of theirs since Narrow Stairs. Some great songwriting on here.
Thank you, Mr. Gibbard and friends, for giving a damn about making music and putting a high level of creative energy and thought into your songs almost 30 years in.
Its early Friday morning and sunny here. It’s my 5 year olds first day of summer break after finishing pre-k and she’s still asleep. It’s quiet inside as my wife and one year old daughter are also still asleep. This new Death Cab album is everything right now. I just finished listening to it and it blew my mind. Could this be an instant classic for the band? I think it just might be. So glad I ordered this on vinyl!
Punching the Flowers is a BANGER and I'm loving this so far as much as it's emotionally fucking me up
Reaping / sowing meme but it’s Ben saying he will possess your heart / finding out your heart has a trap door anyway - the bite and aggression on some of these songs is very cool for them. Feel like this band really needed that.
The opener is a snooze but thankfully the rest of this delivers. Not as gripping as my first listen of Asphalt Meadows though.
Dang, wtf. New Death Cab and Modest Mouse in the same day and both albums are some of the best work these bands have done. Where is Seth Cohen?
Having a party at my place on Saturday night to listen to it for the first time on vinyl if anyone wants to come
Really digging this album. Reminds me a LOT of Kintsugi funny enough in just how simple its execution is, just would argue this is a tighter version of that
I like this a lot. Feels like a conscious attempt to try to make something like The Photo Album again.
I don’t think this is bad but none of these songs are really grabbing me. It’s the best Ben’s voice has sounded since Plans pretty easily. Punch the Flowers and the title track version an are both good songs. Just not a lot of meat on these bones imo unfortunately
Came here to say this. "If only the winners write history, there will be nothing on our page" got me good.
I think this is a grower of an album for sure. It's some of the most challenging songwriting they've done in a while I think, yet also has some very straightforward songs. I think time will be kind to this one, but that's after just one listen.
First blush with this is overwhelmingly positive. Punching The Flowers, Stone Over Water and Trap Door are my early favorites. A good, good friend of mine got divorced out of nowhere 2 years ago and he's a huge DCFC fan. I fear this album may destroy him.
Just finished. This is a great listen that I suspect will get better on second pass. "The Flavor of Metal" is a late album highlight for me.