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    ricky disliked and reviewed Narrow Stairs
    
    EXCEPT FOR CATH!! THAT SONG RULES!!
    
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    Eric Schneider favorited and reviewed Narrow Stairs
    
    Spontaneously Beautiful would be the best way to describe this album. While it is not quite as emotionally powerful as "Plans" or "Transatlanticism", the themes they explore in this album are both... more
    
    Spontaneously Beautiful would be the best way to describe this album. While it is not quite as emotionally powerful as "Plans" or "Transatlanticism", the themes they explore in this album are both unique and intriguing. The idea of setting up rhythmic grooves instead of melodic introductions is simply a stunning direction. This could have been very controversial, but Ben Gibbard makes up for the lack of "Death Cab-ness" with pure Gibbard lyrical genius and style. If you are looking for a different Death Cab this may be the album for you.
    
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    your new twin size bed!
    
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    is listening to
    
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    Love, love, love "I will possess your heart"!! :)
    
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    music is my life
    
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    I will possess Ur heart!
    
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    I am listening to this album right now
    
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    Favorite DCfC album,
    
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After relentless touring, performances on Saturday Night Live, and appearing on the cover of Spin and Paste Magazines, Death Cab for Cutie brings us Narrow Stairs. Following up their DVD collection, Directions, which sold over 30,000 copies and their platinum selling album, Plans, was no easy task but Narrow Stairs has already been praised by MTV.com as the band’s most daring and adventurous effort to date.Narrow Stairs might be the first album recorded by Death Cab for Cutie since Ben Gibbard's former solo project went unexpectedly stratospheric, but Gibbard hasn't let it go to his head. Oh, OK, maybe a little: lead-off single "I Will Possess Your Heart" is an eight minute jam that speeds off on one long, luminous curve before Gibbard's distinctive vocals swing in, sweet and plaintive as ever. Even when indulging their grander visions, though, Death Cab for Cutie are still familiar as the same band that wrote those fragile, winsome songs back before teen drama The OC came knocking. Never knowingly overstated, built from driving rhythms, flourishes of piano and intricate melodies, Narrow Stairs builds grand, emotionally loaded narratives from small, subtle parts. "Your New Twin Sized Bed" hides a deftly articulated tale of heartbreak and loneliness amidst soothing tangles of guitar, while "You Can Do Better than Me" is a sweet miniature that's part Pet Sounds orchestration, part wistful Dear John. This isn't, as Gibbard would previously hint, a dissonant or especially adventurous album. It proves, however, that Death Cab can extend their scope without diluting the pathos or energy of their music, and it not only sounds great, but bodes well for the future. --Louis Pattison

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