Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
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Death Cab for Cutie, that poster boy for sensitive indie pop, prove it has some balls behind all that pretty, OC-approved music with Narrow Stairs. The follow-up to 2005's Plans, the group's second Atlantic outing, is a welcome growth musically and thematically: The songs here hit with a full-on assault of crunching guitar riffs, distorted, cracked vocals and walls of disorienting feedback, while lyrically, frontman Ben Gibbard visits the moodier and darker corners of his mind. A lumbering bass lingers behind a stalker on the loose on the eight-minute I Will Possess Your Heart, the guitars driving Cath . . . venture close to alt-country territory, and...
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