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Transatlanticism

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PLAY QUEUE 1 The New Year		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Lightness		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Title And Registration		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Expo '86		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 The Sound Of Settling		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Tiny Vessels		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Transatlanticism		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Passenger Seat		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Death Of An Interior Decorator		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 We Looked Like Giants		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 A Lack Of Color		save

MOG Editorial Review

Before they became one of the biggest indie rock success stories of the last decade, Death Cab for Cutie were still adding a bit of then-unconventional flair to alt-rock when they put out Transatlanticism in 2003. "The New Year" immediately sets the tone, providing a new anthem for teenagers everywhere preparing to ring in another year, while the acoustic strums and clever wordplay of "Title and Registration" provide of perfect showcase for Ben Gibbard's lyrical prowess. Meanwhile Gibbard also showed that he could paint the perfect picture of another person's life on "Death of an Interior Decorator," a step outside his comfort zone on an album full of moments like that. Though they'd start to feel creatively stagnant from here, Transatlanticism showed exactly why Death Cab for Cutie were always destined to be indie icons.
AMG Review of Transatlanticism

Rob Theakston
All Music Guide

As musical lunacy goes, things have gotten as crazy as it gets for Death Cab for Cutie since 2002's You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation. A wildly successful tour with Dismemberment Plan, a collaboration for singer Ben Gibbard with emo-electronic guru Dntel under the Postal Service moniker, and a whole new legion of fans swooning to Gibbard's lyrics as if he were a modern day answer to Kiss Me-era Robert Smith have all amassed considerable hype around Transatlanticism. But the group proves themselves more than equal to the task, answering the call and proving the cynics wrong with their most focused and most mature work in their entire catalog. Transatlanticism wastes absolutely no time and dives in head first with "The New Year," one of the most melodramatic openings to an album since the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The mellow, mixed-meter percussion and dense atmosphere of "Lightness" is a brilliant lead into the pop-happy "Expo '86" and "The Sound of Settling" before setting up the climatic and intensely dramatic title track. Unconsciously taking a page from Blur's "Sing," the hypnotic drumming and guitar call and responses through the eight-minute climax of the album are backed with a singalong finale that unquestionably will have every audience on the next tour singing along and holding up their lighters. And while most albums would be left exhausted after such a track, the group keeps things moving, albeit at a much slower pace than compared to the anthems that packed the first half. Gibbard seamlessly makes the transition between songs that full out rock to songs that are comparable to Elliott Smith's finest hour with great ease. But it's Gibbard's poetic lyrics and signature introspection that remain a bench mark for Death Cab; and it's the group's maturity as musicians as well as songwriters that make Transatlanticism such a decadently good listen from start to finish. The band has never sounded more cohesive, the track sequencing is brilliant, and it caps off a triumphant year for not only Gibbard, but a band whose time and greater recognition is finally due.