A selection of Death Cab

Love the piano intro and bass guitar riff at the beginning of this track. At 8 minutes long, and a vocal that only voices itself about 5 minutes into the track, this is great new 2008 material from Death Cab for Cutie, entitled I Will Possess Your Heart (slightly freaky despotic title, but meh). Great touristy video.



Title and Registration by Death Cab for Cutie. This was the very first song that got me into Death Cab. I just love it. It gets me every time, in a really bad sentimental way. There are just some beautiful, poetic fucking poignant lyrics. & a great plummy synth too. Or like someone walking the streets with dustbin lids stuck to his feet. And a pluck of guitar which sounds like a harp, or the palpy beating and tightening, releasing, contracting of a heart. "The glove compartment isn't accurately named/and everybody knows it/so I'm proposing a swift orderly change/because behind it's door there's nothing to keep my fingers warm/and all I find/are souvenirs from better times", "There's no blame/for how our love did slowly fade/and now it's gone/it's like it wasn't there at all/so here I rest/where disappointment and regret/collide/lying awake at night". Nice video too, reminds me of Michel Gondry actually, especially the dream idea animation from The Science of Sleep. Very Gondry indeed.



Another beautiful, beautiful song, this time from the 2006 album, Plans. What Sarah Said is a song about death, and who will be there for us when we're jumped by the worst hoodie of all: death. Really nice video again goes with this song. "And I rationed my breath/as I said to myself/that I'd already taken too much today/as each descending peak on the LCD/took you a little further away from me". It's just such a fucking great song, wonderful lyrics, amazing drums and piano. "Amongst the vending machines/and year old magazines/in a place where we only say goodbye". "And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground/as the TV entertained itself/cos there's no comfort in the waiting room/just nervous faces bracing for bad news/then the nurse comes round/and everyone lifts their heads/and I'm thinking what Sarah said: love is watching someone die".



The Sound of Settling. The song made famous by a soundtrack appearance on The OC. "Our youth is fleeting/old age is just around the bend/and I can't wait to go grey/and I'll sit and wonder/of every love that could have been/if I'd only thought of something charming to say".