{"id":1089,"date":"2008-05-12T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2008-05-12T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:46:52","slug":"death-cab-for-cutie-narrow-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/death-cab-for-cutie-narrow-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1090\" title=\"Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>I consciously avoided Death Cab For Cutie at Coachella this year. I like them just fine. <em>Plans <\/em>was a mellifluous little collection of tunes that somehow today remind me of walking around Hollywood&#8217;s Farmer&#8217;s Market at Selma and Ivar. It was just that there were other acts that I&#8217;d wanted to see more. So I skipped them.<\/p>\n<p>Had I heard <em>Narrow Stairs<\/em> beforehand, I don&#8217;t know that I would have been so cavalier about DCFC&#8217;s set. While their last album was so jangly and well-intentioned, so full of cotton candy, this new one is a different beast entirely. It&#8217;s darker, it&#8217;s leaner, it&#8217;s more likely to lurk in alleyways than frolic in danedelion patches. Take &#8220;Your New Twin Sized Bed&#8221; for example, which kicks off with quiet stings and Ben Gibbard&#8217;s reclusive, spectral voice sounding not entirely unlike something Nineties-era Manchester might have given us, but then kicks up an insistent, orchestral flavored jam. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been all over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:gxfyxzljld0e\"><em>Saturdays=Youth<\/em><\/a> lately, but it sounds like M83 without all the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a complex tune, but if this is the sort of stuff they were belting out on the Coachella stage sixteen days ago, I&#8217;m gonna have to take the ol&#8217; DeLorean up to 88, if you know <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flux_capacitor\">what I mean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/mpthree\/dcfc.mp3\">Death Cab For Cutie &#8211; &#8220;Your New Twin Sized Bed&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>on the web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Narrow-Stairs-Death-Cab-Cutie\/dp\/B0017I1RH4\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1210577723&amp;sr=8-1\">amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewVideo?id=279686669&amp;s=143441\">itunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathcabforcutie.com\/splash\/\">official site<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.allmusic.com\/2008\/5\/9\/death-cab-for-cutie-narrow-stairs\/\">allmusic (Andrew Leahey&#8217;s review)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc-120x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dcfc.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,194,16,3,52],"tags":[479,345],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}