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Narrow Stairs | 
| Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 17.99
Buy New: CDN$ 10.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 78
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 452796
UPC: 075678994654
EAN: 0075678994654
ASIN: B0017I1RH4
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed, Original Audio CD, Ships From Canada
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| Tracks:
| | Bixby Canyon Bridge | | | I Will Possess Your Heart | | | No Sunlight | | | Cath... | | | Talking Bird | | | You Can Do Better Than Me | | | Grapevine Fires | | | Your New Twin Sized Bed | | | Long Division | | | Pity and Fear | | | The Ice Is Getting Thinner |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Death Cab trying to be Death Cab July 23, 2008
I was pretty disapointed with the newest release from Death Cab for Cutie. I felt that they must have sat down and said, "ok time for a new record. No original material? um........ let's just whip up some songs that sound like us".
there isn't a particular song that stands out as being superb or even particularly memorable. Maybe they used up all their good stuff on Plans.
 They have a musical palette far wider than most of their peers. May 14, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Narrow Stairs" is a markedly different album to its predecessor "Plans", which went platinum in 2005.
Ben Gibbard's distinctive voice is still there, but musically it's a dense, challenging affair with the layered guitars on "Bixby Canyon Bridge" and the discordant piano and bass of single "I Will Possess Your Heart" setting the tone for the whole album.
Anyone expecting the lush warmth of "Plans" may be initially repelled.
This follow-up is more experimental. There's still a fair complement of standard American indie-rock in songs like "No Sunlight", a catchy piece of stomp-pop that recalls their chums The Shins, and the opener "Bixby Canyon Bridge", which builds from a quiet thrumming of guitars to a vortex of sound.
But elsewhere, there's an African sparkle to the arpeggios of "Your New Twin-Sized Bed", while "Long Division" and "I Will Possess Your Heart" suggest the band have discovered the hypnotic attraction of Neu!'s motorik groove.
The latter track is impressive: eight minutes of tremulous guitar and piano throbbing along, with singer Ben Gibbard only entering four minutes in to plead for tolerance. "It's like a book elegantly bound, but in a language you can't read," he claims, perhaps anxious about how the fans might react to the new direction. On this evidence, he needn't worry.
Death Cab For Cutie may not rival Wilco in the challenging alt-rock stakes yet, but Narrow Stairs is an adventurous album from a band who could've easily made another record of alt-rock by numbers.
Pick of the album: "I Will Possess Your Heart", "Your New Twin-Sized Bed", "No Sunlight"
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