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For your consideration: a wildly successful indie rock band with a legion of followers on an equally successful, highly credible independent label makes the jump to major-label powerhouse Atlantic, leading to much chagrin and speculation among its fans as they awaited with bated breath for what would happen to the group. The result was For Your Own Special Sweetheart, inarguably the most polished and fully realized album of Dischord alumnus Jawbox's career. Fast forward ten years and you find Barsuk's Death Cab for Cutie in the same position, making the same move. A new label, a larger crowd (thanks to their repeated appearances on The OC), and a side project of Ben Gibbard (Postal Service) that very well overshadowed the success of his main project. All of the moves were perfectly aligned to take the little band that could into the rock stratosphere. But the difference between Jawbox and Death Cab for Cutie was that For Your Own Special Sweetheart went on to be the finest release of Jawbox's canon. Plans definitely comes close to that mark, but falls slightly short. In comparison to the dry, raw production of Transatlanticism, Plans is warm and polished, the kind of album expected from a band obsessed with the sound of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Chris Walla does an amazing job bringing the group's sound in a different direction than before without compromising too many of the things that made the group sound great to begin with. Thematically, Plans is the Death Cab for Cutie suitable for graduate students, world-weary and wiser from their experiences, realizing they can no longer be love-starved 20-somethings without a clue yet hopelessly cursed to face the same issues. And there's merit to be had in acknowledging that maturity, for even blink-182 figured out their age and released their "serious" album. Gibbard's wispy, poetic lyrics (which could easily have been stolen from Aimee Mann's dressing room while she wasn't looking) still remain an artery from which the rest of the band beats and are some of his finest ever, but this time around the band aligns itself more with a series of emotional murmurs rather than a heart attack. The album winds its way from one ballad to the next, with brief stopovers at moderately up-tempo numbers to help break things up a bit. And it's this sense of resignation that either makes or breaks the album, depending on which Death Cab for Cutie is your favorite: the melancholic, hopeless romantic or the one who wears its heart on its sleeve with unbridled energy and passion. If Transatlanticism was Gibbard's Pet Sounds and Postal Service was SMiLE, then this is definitely Wild Honey, loved by adoring new fans and those who enjoy the ballads. But those hoping for a bit more -- for the bar to be raised higher -- might find this a mildly predictable exercise in Gibbard exorcising the demons of Phil Collins that haunt him. Plans is both a destination and a transitional journey for the group, one that sees the fulfillment of years of toiling away to develop their ideas and sound. But it's with the completion of those ideas that band is faced with a new set of crossroads and challenges to tread upon: to stay the course and suffer stagnation or try something bold and daringly new with their future. Which road they'll take will make all the difference.

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You are currently listening to samples. Listen to over 60 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan. Listen to this album and more than 60 million songs with your unlimited streaming plans. 1 month free, then £14,99/ month 1 month free 1 Marching Bands of Manhattan Album Version Buy track 00:04:12 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 2 Soul Meets Body Album Version Buy track 00:03:50 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Mixer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - William Swan, Trumpet 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 3 Summer Skin Album Version Buy track 00:03:14 Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Writer, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member, Writer - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 4 Different Names for the Same Thing Album Version Buy track 00:05:08 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 5 I Will Follow You into the Dark Album Version Buy track 00:03:09 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Mixer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 6 Your Heart Is an Empty Room Album Version Buy track 00:03:39 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Unknown, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 7 Someday You Will Be Loved Album Version Buy track 00:03:11 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Writer, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 8 Crooked Teeth Album Version Buy track 00:03:23 Sean Nelson, Vocals - Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Writer, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 9 What Sarah Said Album Version Buy track 00:06:20 Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member, Writer - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 10 Brothers on a Hotel Bed Album Version Buy track 00:04:31 Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Writer, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 11 Stable Song Album Version Buy track 00:03:40 Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Benjamin Gibbard, Band Member, Writer - Christopher Walla, Producer, Band Member, Recorded by - Jason McGerr, Band Member - Nicholas Harmer, Band Member - Chris Shaw, Mixer - Adrian Gross, Writer - Davod Schoenwetter, Writer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 12 Start Again Unavail. individ. 00:02:37 Death Cab For Cutie, Performance, MainArtist - Norman George Blake, Writer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation 13 Bad Reputation Unavail. individ. 00:04:15 Death Cab For Cutie, MainArtist - Freedy Johnston, Writer 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. See More Your browser does not support the audio element.

Album Description For your consideration: a wildly successful indie rock band with a legion of followers on an equally successful, highly credible independent label makes the jump to major-label powerhouse Atlantic, leading to much chagrin and speculation among its fans as they awaited with bated breath for what would happen to the group. The result was For Your Own Special Sweetheart, inarguably the most polished and fully realized album of Dischord alumnus Jawbox's career. Fast forward ten years and you find Barsuk's Death Cab for Cutie in the same position, making the same move. A new label, a larger crowd (thanks to their repeated appearances on The OC), and a side project of Ben Gibbard (Postal Service) that very well overshadowed the success of his main project. All of the moves were perfectly aligned to take the little band that could into the rock stratosphere. But the difference between Jawbox and Death Cab for Cutie was that For Your Own Special Sweetheart went on to be the finest release of Jawbox's canon. Plans definitely comes close to that mark, but falls slightly short. In comparison to the dry, raw production of Transatlanticism, Plans is warm and polished, the kind of album expected from a band obsessed with the sound of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Chris Walla does an amazing job bringing the group's sound in a different direction than before without compromising too many of the things that made the group sound great to begin with. Thematically, Plans is the Death Cab for Cutie suitable for graduate students, world-weary and wiser from their experiences, realizing they can no longer be love-starved 20-somethings without a clue yet hopelessly cursed to face the same issues. And there's merit to be had in acknowledging that maturity, for even blink-182 figured out their age and released their "serious" album. Gibbard's wispy, poetic lyrics (which could easily have been stolen from Aimee Mann's dressing room while she wasn't looking) still remain an artery from which the rest of the band beats and are some of his finest ever, but this time around the band aligns itself more with a series of emotional murmurs rather than a heart attack. The album winds its way from one ballad to the next, with brief stopovers at moderately up-tempo numbers to help break things up a bit. And it's this sense of resignation that either makes or breaks the album, depending on which Death Cab for Cutie is your favorite: the melancholic, hopeless romantic or the one who wears its heart on its sleeve with unbridled energy and passion. If Transatlanticism was Gibbard's Pet Sounds and Postal Service was SMiLE, then this is definitely Wild Honey, loved by adoring new fans and those who enjoy the ballads. But those hoping for a bit more -- for the bar to be raised higher -- might find this a mildly predictable exercise in Gibbard exorcising the demons of Phil Collins that haunt him. Plans is both a destination and a transitional journey for the group, one that sees the fulfillment of years of toiling away to develop their ideas and sound. But it's with the completion of those ideas that band is faced with a new set of crossroads and challenges to tread upon: to stay the course and suffer stagnation or try something bold and daringly new with their future. Which road they'll take will make all the difference.

© Rob Theakston /TiVo

About the album 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)

Total length: 00:51:09 Main artist: Death Cab For Cutie

Label: Atlantic Records

Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie

16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. 2005 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. All Rights Reserved. Improve this page

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