Death Cab For Cutie: “Asphalt Meadows” (Review & Stream)

<!–

–>

<!–

–>

Times are different: loud guitars break out over the new DCFC album’s opener, “I Don’t Know How I Survive”, “Foxglove Through The Clearcut” ends in post-rock noise, and under “I’ll Never Give Up On You” are powerful drums. Something has changed in Death Cab For Cutie.

Instead of the glossy guitars and the wide reverberation rooms, “Asphalt Meadows” has a very direct, unvarnished sound, which producer John Congleton organizes in a way that is typical for him, for example in the distorted “Roman Candles”, a song about the existential fear of a dying man planets. Death Cab not so Cutie. Everything else remains: the bittersweet pathos, the concise songwriting. Good change, good album.

SIMILAR REVIEWS

Lou Reed :: “Words & Music, May 1965”

Early demos and covers

Suede :: “Autofiction”

The ex-Brit poppers pay homage to pure rock’n’roll.

Whitney :: “Spark”

The band from Chicago discovered pop for themselves.

SIMILAR ARTICLES

Indiana Jones: Why Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn’t the worst Indy

Aliens and monkeys on vines: Immediately after “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” came to the cinema, it became the least popular film in the adventure series. Wrongly.

Review: Gorillaz live in Berlin – cynical hipsters also dance here

The virtual band around frontman Damon Albarn is on a world tour. On June 24th they played in the Parkbühne Wulheide in Berlin.

Earth furniture special: Had longing weight

A journey into the work of the most virtuoso German pop band

<!–

–>

<!–

–>

ttn-30