Death Cab For Cutie’s new single, “I Will Possess Your Heart” doesn’t have any lyrics for the first minute….and a half….two minutes…two and a half minutes…THREE minutes…three and a half minutes…no way, four minutes…4:35, lyrics.
Four minutes and thirty-five seconds. One would have sufficed. Granted, Gibbard’s voice sounds impeccably…clear, for some reason when he finally chimes in. The sound quality is fantastic, something that must have either been missing on previous records or been overshadowed by sad lyrics and sad instrumentals and the sounds of people across the world crying their eyes out or putting on guyliner to Death Cab’s music.
Slightly repetetive (both instrumentally and lyrically, considering they gave me Ben Gibbard blue balls for almost five minutes) and a clear step in a different direction from their other material, I hope the album is a mix of their old and new sounds, and not something that’s unrelated to their previous work. After all, no one wants to watch the clock and countdown the minutes to their new album’s failure.
Check out the long song on their MySpace page.
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if sarah silverman, stacy london, buster bluth and ari gold had a love child, it would be me.
Josh Fisher (Josh Fisher) says:
(Posted March 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm)
lol, I heard this song on the radio. q101 specifically. I caught it when the lyrics we’re going, so I was surprised to read that the intro was four and a half minutes long. I wanted DJ confirmation that what I was hearing was deathcab, cause I almost settled on the decemberists because of the bass groove and the thick chordal background music, but I knew it had to be BG singing.
Anywho, I liked what I heard, and now that I’m listening to this intro, it’s a rather intriguing song. It’s a departure from a lot of d-cab songs, in that he sings from an optimistic, determined p.o.v. rather than the passive, blah voice occasionally used.
any increase in energy from Plans, is a step in the right direction. i guess it’s time to pirate the album, since it has yet to be released.