Death Cab For Cutie is an indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard that formed in Bellingham, WA in 1997. The band has had a variety of members over the years, but of note is guitarist Chris Walla who spent 17 years with the band and departed in 2014.
Excluding the early cassette You Can Play These Songs With Chords, as of 2023 Death Cab For Cutie has had 10 studio albums including Something About Airplanes, We Have the Facts and Were Voting Yes, The Photo Album, Transatlanticism, and many more.
They have predominantly released their work on Barsuk Records and Atlantic Records.
Today, I’m continuing on my path of counting down the top 20 albums turning 20 in 2023. For the first ten on the list, visit Part 1 where I cover 20 to 11. Today, I’ll be focusing on the top 10. As always, this list is a roundup of my personal selections, so there’s a…
It’s 2023 and Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism turns 20 this year. In many ways that blows my mind! So today, I’m going to revisit the album, starting with taking a look at the vinyl versions released in it’s first 20 years, then unboxing my copy, which is the 10th Anniversary Pressing from 2013, and…
Once again, FensePost has become dormant. I get it in my head that posts need to be long and detailed and overly complicated with wise words and complex thoughts. Thus, months go by without a post. This has been an ongoing thing for the better part of a decade now. So, today I’m just going…
This is the first chapter of my new Formative series, in which I recount in long form how certain artists or bands have had significant impact on my life, from a variety of vantage points: musically, personally, and through my career. In Chapter 1, I look at Death Cab for Cutie. We Have the Facts…
This is, undoubtedly, the most metal side of Death Cab For Cutie you will ever see. Released around the turn of the century puts this unique 7-inch closer to the group’s beginning than today, and was pre-dated (in Barsuk standards) only by Something About Airplanes, though the single was released in March 2000 to coincide…
The second installment of A Retrospective, in which I recap my favorite albums released from 2000 to 2008, this time: 2001. Wrought with turmoil and watching a life fall apart as so many others were having similar experiences but in a different manner; that was 2001 for you. The year I turned 21. A year…
I’ve decided to create an installment in which I do a recap of my favorite albums of the past ten years now that we’re coming up on the turn-of-decade – yes, 2010 is upon us. The key: I do them one at a time. I figure contemplating the weight of albums that have been instituted…
