You Can Play These Songs With ChordsDeath Cab for Cutie · 1996

pitchfork

6.4

“Wanna make a home copy of *You Can Play These Songs with Chords* for free, without taking your chances of drawing the RIAA's ire and endangering your ability to hold political office in the future? Dust off a vinyl copy of Death Cab's 1999 debut *Something About Airplanes*, dig out that old Fisher-Price record player (the tan-colored one with the fat needle), stick a pillow over the speaker, and p”

rollingstone

6.0

“A collection of outtakes, demos and rarities, this eighteen-song disc proves that Seattle indie-rock band Death Cab for Cutie was onto something before it even got started. Like Seam or Quasi, Death Cab make icily pretty music that conveys emotion through its lack of emotion — there’s vague gloominess in Ben Gibbard’s breathy, faraway voice […]”