Ok, so, I know I recently slated Death Cab for Cutie for their appalling gig, but I have finally bit­ten the bul­let and listened to their latest offering.

Yes, the con­cert was a shambles but let’s for­get that and move on to the album. I was bored, work­ing at the com­puter and, hav­ing recently lost my entire iTunes lib­rary thanks to a com­puter fail­ure, I was thor­oughly annoyed. So I decided to down­load the new DCFC album and MY GOD IS IT GOOD!

Ini­tial listen­ing led me to believe that it was a tired and slightly under­achiev­ing effort, but I hadn’t given it a chance. The full ver­sion of ‘I will pos­sess your heart’ is amaz­ing; the five or so minute build up before the lyr­ics even kick in enhances the claus­tro­phobic nature that the rather wor­ry­ing lyr­ics con­vey. ‘Talk­ing Bird’, an ode to his par­rot, that may or may not be a methaphor for a rela­tion­ship, I haven’t quite made my mind up on yet. The beauty of the song is that even if it is about a damn par­rot, it’s still a per­fectly craf­ted piece of work.

Yes the album has the odd song that you listen to without really tak­ing in, ‘Long Divi­sion’ for example, but the songs that do stick out stick out so far you could see them from space.

Yet another fant­astic offer­ing from Death Cab. Oh and you’ll be pleased to know, he sounds noth­ing like James Blunt any­where on the album.