“Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard is the poet of a particular purgatory — the holding cell in your head that’s filled with failed relationships and wrong roads taken. Death Cab’s most memorable songs contain snapshots from its walls: Gibbard has sung about an incriminating kiss in a photobooth, discovering forgotten pictures of an […]”
“Death Cab's second album for Atlantic and sixth proper LP overall is one of the darkest and most muscular in the band's discography, as they move from the undergraduate longing of their earlier work and the looming mortality of Plans to a more generalized existential angst.”
