Narrow Stairs
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 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. Product details and pricing info |
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100 Customer Reviews Posted
- YEAH!
- Come on. Anyone who can whine about this album after the last several more and more BORING ones is nuts. Narrow Stairs does manage to give a nod back to We Have the Facts..., still one of the finest albums since The Queen is Dead and still sound fresh. I started with Death Cab upon the first release and unlike REM they didn't have to wait 20 years to put out something great once again.
- 2008-07-21, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Don't waste your time or money.
- Death Cab for Cutie has always been an all-time favorite of mine. They were my very first concert.
I was ecstatic when I heard that they were finally coming out with a new album.
I couldn't have been more disappointed. Not even one song stood out on the ENTIRE CD.
Oh, Death Cab. Please, give us something decent next time. Please. - 2008-07-19, 2 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Monotonous and bland, yet surprisingly boring
- This is the complete opposite of the Death Cab I know and love. What happened to melody? What happened to diversity? Each song seems blandly the same, monotonous, and (gasp!) downright BORRRINGGGG!
I saw them live in L.A. a while back, and their energy and effort blew me away. I even chatted with Ben backstage, and his charisma and joy was impressive. Too bad they didn't translate that into this album.... - 2008-07-17, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Rocky but good.
- This record is definitely a departure from their previous works. Rockier and with more jam sessions but still very good.
- 2008-07-16, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Marionettes for the Music Box
- Trash.
Unremarkable, forgettable garbage.
Never has going through the motions been so adeptly portrayed in song.
There is not a single worthwhile composition, suggesting that, like many who get doused with popularity, the band doesn't have the artistic wherewithal to keep a record label from dictating every melodic sweep and gesture with the twitch of a wrist.
I tried valiantly to stick with Death Cab through the stilted, meta-production of Plans and the meadering dissonance of Transatlanticism.
But it is now official that the band has been permanently led astray from the mystical, albeit morose, ingenuity that engendered "Something About Airplanes."
Though it saddens me, I cannot follow Gibbard into the dark.
If anyone has an address for the band, let me know. I'd like to return my copy to sender. - 2008-07-16, 0 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
