Death Cab For Cutie - "No Sunlight"

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Death Cab For Cutie - "No Sunlight"

Death Cab For Cutie - "No Sunlight"

Posted about 1 year ago

When I was young, lying in the grassI felt so safe in a warming bathof sunlightof sunlightfast open sky could do no harmlike an embrace of a mothers armsin sunlightin sunlightin sunlightin sunlight.With every year that came to passmore clouds appear until the sky went blackand now there'sno sunlight,no sunlight.and now there'sno sunlight,no sunlight anymore.you dissapeared with the same speedthe idealistic things i believedthe optimist died inside of meno sunlight,no sunlight.no sunlight,no sunlight.you dissapeared with the same speedthe idealistic thing i believedthe optimist died inside of meno sunlight,no sunlight.no sunlight,no sunlight.no sunlight,no sunlight,no sunlight,no sunlight anymore.

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YellowBird- says It upsets me greatly to say that I am really disappointed with Narrow Stairs. It has taken me a few days to admit it to myself, but it was just so far from the make-or-break album it was hyped up to be. 'No Sunlight' is the cheesiest, poppiest track. I just expected more from them. At the moment I'm feeling like the only one who hasn't been blinded by love?

Permalink posted 05/14/2008
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caliscrnwrtr says well, it isn't in any way my favorite dcfc album, but i like it. it's dark and brooding, like their old stuff, but more lyrically mature, like their newer stuff. i think it's a nice melange of the old intensity and new production. i think there's a lot of layers in all of their songs, and each listen seems to uncover more and more complexities. i think this is definitely the best of their major label albums, but not the best overall. i think the reason it's getting so much praise is because everyone sees them as some bland indie rock hipster shit, and this album is the first (of their major label) with some teeth. it's the first time most people have heard them having a dark side. i, on the other hand, have been listening to their dark side since "airplanes" and felt disappointed with "plans", which felt studio-ish to me. i like "stairs" because it feels more like "airplanes" and "transatlanticism" but with the slick production of "plans". it works for me...

Permalink posted 05/14/2008
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matt cleveland says I really didn't listen to dcfc until just before Plans came out. I thought Plans was pretty dark though. This album has been touted as being very dark, but like you said, it's complex. The light of the music provides a great balance to the dark of the lyrics. Plans didn't have that balance. It was as dark musically as it was lyrically. It seems like dcfc is the more serious side of Mr. Gibbard these days, while he's getting his pop ya yas out with The Postal Service (who I sincerely hope comes out with a masterful album this year, or that bastard Bob Boilin is playing a dirty trick on his Alll Songs Considered listeners...he teased us last fall that he had been listening to the new ps album and was really loving it). Overall, I dig this album as much as anything else they've put out to date.

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amber says I personally think Narrow Stairs has songs that border on brilliance...and a couple that just don't. I reviewed the snot out of it here on MOG a few days ago but really I think we need to just LISTEN to it, preferably with headphones.

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Zeroskilz says I think it's a pretty strong album. It has definitely gotten a lot of play from me. I started listening to them around Transatlantacism though. I like Plans a lot but thought Transatlantacism was the better album. This album sounds more like what I like out of this band: dark, brooding music that makes me smile while questioning where things went wrong. I'm also eagerly awaiting a new Postal Service album. It better release this year. I can't take the waiting any longer. At least I have this excellent album to comfort me in the meantime. :)

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Anonymous says I did read somewhere that Ben Gibbard says there will be no new Postal Service album... :(

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Anonymous says you weren't joking when you said you were a huge DCFC fan! ;)

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Anonymous says i've heard both yays and nays for a new postal service album. either way, it can't happen this year since ben spent most of last year either on his solo tour or recording "narrow stairs". they probably won't even get into the studio until the end of this year if they do at all.

Permalink posted 05/15/2008