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
- Good Ideas, but no real substance
- There are some good songs on here, but the finished product is questionable. The best song, 'I Will Possess Your Heart', has been given the most extreme 'album version' treatment. With a 4.5 minute instrumental introduction, you forget why you even bought the album in the first place (for this song). It's a bit self-indulgent if you ask me.
- 2008-06-10, 4 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Weeding out the fanbase, eh?
- This album was designed with the intention of discovery and novelty. Like any good band, DCFC has proven their flexibility and fearlessness to express themselves, even if the tunes aren't as catchy. The unconventional song lengths and structures, as well as less predictable vocal melodies from Gibbard create a new story, a new direction, and a new album. This isn't another Plans, and DCFC is fine with that. It seems that they made this album to see what fans would go the distance, who could handle a song that the radio couldn't. ('I Will Possess Your Heart' was edited to make it more radio-friendly.) The band has had fame, they've had fortune, and now, it appears, they want freedom. They certainly got it here. (I secretly would like to think that they were more subtle with their music in hopes that they would create fans with better ears, hearing the nuances of 'Narrow Stairs' tracks and appreciating it, rather than knowing only the candy that is 'Plans'. (Not, of course, to say that 'Plans' is a bad album, quite the contrary, but merely to say that it is much more instantly gratifying.)
- 2008-06-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Their best album since Transatlanticism!!
- The melodies, lyrics, rhythms, and underlying dark theme on 'Narrow Stairs' are nothing short of brilliant. What a great record!
- 2008-06-09, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good things here
- Good album, just received it a few days ago. Would recommend it to any "indie whatever genre you want to call it" likers. I am sure it will grow on me. It has some very soothing tracks which will calm the soul.
- 2008-06-08, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- It's better than having pudding thrown at you
- I think that is the best way to describe this album. I've been a fan of DCFC since they thought of forming. I've got all of their Cds and have designed workouts to each of them. Plans is my favorite one to work out to. I do a lot of cardio and feel good. They are an interesting band in that they play music using instruments. The keyboards riffs are pretty cool and the singer sings a lot of things about the world. I front a band that does a lot of the same things, but we refuse to put out albums because that's where the lines get blurry. We perform live and make people smile, but we won't put out an album until the issue gets resolved. We do some Death Cab covers like "What Sarah Said" and people tend to like us a lot. We are called asschowder and are very attractive. That opens doors for us.
Burns almost tried out for this band but couldn't get a ride. He's now our keyboard player and we couldn't be happier. If pudding is average, we are not pudding. - 2008-06-06, 1 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
