7.0
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#30,462
All Time
10
Tracks
“As a touchstone indie band of the 2000s, Death Cab For Cutie crafted sensitive, wistful songs filled with earnest feeling. Starkly confessional and filled with a melancholy much-appreciated by the passing “emo” scene, their classic albums have aged well, but often sound of their time. With eight other studio albums under their belt and 20 years as a band, Thank You for Today surprises by offering ”
“Death Cab For Cutie's Thank You For Today brims with nostalgia, melancholia, and hope”
“After enduring two rough breakups, Ben Gibbard successfully tries out some new sounds”
“The ninth album from Ben Gibbard and Co. is their strongest album of the 2010s, a dubious achievement that nonetheless deserves recognition for its rare moments of shining, indie-pop songwriting.”
“For thousands of side-fringed, plaid-shirted young teens, the songwriting duo of Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla was akin to a second set of parents. Between them and their Death Cab For Cutie bandmates, they soundtracked heartbreak and hormones throughout the late ’90s and noughties, drafting up the indie-rock rulebook in the process. Walla’s 2014 departure, then, had all the emotional heft of a draw”
