Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower (June 5, 2026) Album • Page 29

I have a hard time articulating where this belongs in my death cab ranking but I just ranked for mid-year and I realized it lands at number 3 sooooo

 

it's a great album!

 

Listened to photo today and I can’t fathom having it worse than 4

 

There are two songs I even remotely enjoy on Photo album and even then, I don't really like those songs. The band starts with Trans for me

 

I like Photo but I like it in the way I like a good Duster or 764-Hero record where I can’t understand any of the lyrics or log what any of the music distinctly sounds like but I like the lo-fi vibe of guitars and drums and bass doing little lo-fi 90s/2000s indie rock things. Trans is when they clarified themselves into a band where the songs stood apart and they weren’t a blob of yummy lo-fi indie sounds for 25-30 minutes.

 

I love The Photo Album but the first half is a little inconsistent for me, I'm not a huge fan of the first two songs and Information Travels Faster gets a bit overly repetitive by the end.

I also don't think there's anything on there that would make it into my top 10/15 by the band unlike the albums that surround it. I think it would make my top 5 if I'm not counting Give Up although there's a solid chance this new one may overtake it.

 

I find the drums pretty obnoxious on that album for whatever reason

 

I need to re-find my source but as I remember it Ben said something in an interview about Michael Schorr being a very different kind of drummer than what the band actually wanted/needed. I'll dig that up but either way there was a reason he's only on that album.

Edit: also, like, doesn't help that you have to compare him against Jason McGerr, who is better than most drummers

 

Much respect to the 764-Hero name drop, but the more this band sounds like that, the better IMO. Different strokes

 

As a person with a daughter named Guinevere, you are all wrong about the photo album

 

The Photo album is very good. Always just felt a little more like a collection of songs compared to the albums on either side of it imo

 

everyone can disregard Steve's opinions itt moving forward

 

I enjoy The Photo Album and have no issues with what Michael did as a drummer on that album. Certainly more lively and interesting drums and just the overall sound in general than a good chunk of their discography. I understand why Ben is not a fan of thag album/era though

 

What about WE HAVE THE FACTS???

 

I loved you Guinevere, I loved you Guinevere, I loved you.

 

my favorite tattoo

 

It's not good

 

this is actually the closest I've come to threatening someone's life online

 

steve you rascal

 

Do it so you can give yourself a warning

 

wowwww you really r the steve now aren't ya

 

After stepping away from this album to live with Muse’s new one (also rocks) and it’s hitting so hard. I absolutely love it.

 

We Have the Facts is lowkey where they actually defined themselves as a band. I see the Transatlanticism arguments and while its an immense moment in their career, maybe their biggest hit, that album signaled their shift into poppier arrangements and more straightforward compositions. It wouldn’t exist without the foundation of We Have the Facts

 

Did not enjoy We Have the Facts as much as I used to upon revisiting it recently

 

I'm supposed to see them at an outdoor venue tonight but the air quality is so bad... it's giving grapevine fires out there