Listen Before You Buy

The guy who made Postal Service half great finally puts out new music that isn’t old music!

Listen to and download the new(-ish) EP from Ducky, “The Whether”. It’s pretty dark.

Man, I wish I went to a school where I could spend a year knocking out a CD – I don’t just mean in my spare time, but as an actual class project. That was the experience of Ducky, or Morgan Neiman as she was presumably known at the time. She’s now based in New [...]

You may never have heard of Ride, but chances are you’ve heard of Death Cab For Cutie, so let me give a little insight as to who the former are. In the late 80′s and early 90′s there was burgeoning Indie scene in the UK, specifically London and Manchester that were churning out talent like [...]

I don’t generally enjoy 1337. Partly because it’s a bit silly, really; partly because it’s an effort to read. Also, I may have been called a n00b on a message board one time, and my feelings may have been hurt. Every once in a while, though, you just have to lay your prejudices aside – [...]

When was the last time you used a pay phone? Seriously, think about it. Putting change into a phone attached to a pole, or in a booth on the street. Pretty antiquated, right? It’s telling that the cover image on Death Cab for Cutie’s seventh album is a key from a pay phone, suggesting an [...]

I can’t say that I’m a die hard Death Cab For Cutie fan, but I am a fan. I’ve been listening to them for about six years now and was introduced to them via an online messageboard, my first taste being their (then) just released “Plans”.  If you can wear down MP3s then I wore that [...]

I make no secret of loving early ’90s music, so I’m being totally spoiled by this shoegaze revival that seems to be under way at the moment. I mean, obviously I’m one of the people who would say that it never went away, but for once the rest of the world seems to be agreeing [...]

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Of course this shit drops as I’m heading to bed, so I’m keeping this one short. The good peeps (I’ve been saying peeps a lot lately, what’s up with that?  I think it just kinda sounds nice to say, you know? Try it, say it a bunch of times. Oh, that reminds me, you ever [...]

So….what the hell have DCFC done? How’d they go from the untethered ambivalence of “You Are A Tourist”, to the slow-poke, there-but-not-quite-there drab of “Home Is A Fire”, to this?  This being “Some Boys”, the latest track offered from the band’s upcoming 26th album “Codes And Keys” (out May 31st), and “this” is fucking good.  After the [...]

“Home Is A Fire,” the second track we have heard from Death Cab for Cutie’s upcoming full-length, “Codes & Keys,” will no doubt garner significant comparisons to Ben Gibbard’s little side-project, The Postal Service. These comparisons will be inaccurate.  ”Home Is A Fire” is a track built on skittering percussion and understated vocals, not cut-up [...]