Death Cab for Cutie

The alternative rock musical artist that grew up in Seattle has become the forefront of the Indie Rock scene. This coffeehouse band has evolved and altered their sound after nearly two decades. Another name they go by is Death Cab for Cutie. DCFC have found a way within their eight studio album discography to never lose their personal or emotional voice. With six Extended Plays, over twenty singles and several other appearances, DCFC is an unstoppable force that preach the ups-and-downs of life.

American philosopher Rebecca Goldstein once said, “"Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering.” In a world caught up in mass media and consumerism, there is an underlying argument that there is a lack of positive social interaction. With the ability to say anything without having a face-to-face conversation, hate is easier than ever

Musically speaking, there is no definite “hipster” band. Indie kids will always be identified with Death Cab6, while the hipster will try to claim The Postal Service7 as their melodic saviors. Once again, a rip-off. Hipsters hugely identify with the phrase “Oh, I doubt you’ve heard of them,” when asked about their favorite bands. Anything offbeat or mildly

The song “I Will Follow You into the Dark”, by Death Cab for Cutie, has always been a special song to me. When I was younger my brother was a big influence on me, he was the one that would show me new music that he was listening to. I knew he really loved this song, so I always listened to it, hoping to be as cool as I thought he was. To me, the song lyrics mean that if you find someone that truly cares about you and will spend the rest of their life with you, they will always be by your side no

"I Will Possess Your Heart" "I Will Possess Your Heart" is a song written by the band's Death Cab For Cutie in 2007 for their studio album Narrow Stairs. The song depicts a one-sided obsessive relationship. The song is very mellow for a rock song, with catchy piano, guitar, and drum instruments. It is one of those songs that you can't dislike, despite the messages contain in the lyric. Although the song lyrics are creepy you just can't help but be drawn into imagery of the song story. "I Will

Death Cab for Cutie’s Codes and Keys Track-by-Track Album Review Death Cab for Cutie may now be destined for different things, as Chris Walla heads off in his own direction after fifteen years with the group. The indie rock band is now wrapping up their eighth album, which is expected to be released sometime early in 2015. Their last album, Codes and Keys, was released in 2011, and explored new sounds for Death Cab for Cutie. Codes and Keys differs from the guitar-laden 2008 album Narrow Stars in

off, because in my opinion “Black Sun” was the weakest song on the album. Kintsugi is the best Death Cab album since Transatlanticism, featuring guitar melodies that hearken back to the best Death Cab album: We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes. While, yes, I liked this album, I take major issue with the widespread claims that frontman Ben Gibbard has gotten his writing skills back. The early Death Cab albums, like Kintsugi, focused on failed relationships and pining over ideal romances; however

Many things in our world go unnoticed and the people do not know the reason it started or who started them. 99 percent invisible is a small radio show, that raises attention to the things that go unnoticed in the world that shape it. Aids awareness is one of them when an art project started by a group called visual aids that created red ribbons to raise awareness for this issue. 99 percent invisible brings light to the people behind the start of a powerful movement that has affected the world. This

Hipsters all started out in the 1940s when jazz was just starting off. “Early jazz musicians used “hep” for anyone who was in the know” about the culture that was the beginning of something new (Faulkner). The fans of jazz were known as hepcats but Cab Calloway defined the word hepcats as “a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive” so he used the word hepsters instead to describe the people of jazz instead (McKay). This soon caught on and later turned into hipsters. In the 1940s, jazz was

The song I chose for this assignment is “I Will Follow You into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie. Within this song, you will experience the life of a boy who grows old with someone he cherishes. Their life is full of traveling and being together, while giving a positive outlook on aging. You see the speaker adapt and change his thinking in order to stay true to what he believes. He also steels himself to the problems revolving around stratification, and deals with them by not letting it manipulate