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Death Cab For Cutie - The Open Door EP
| 12-06-2009 08:41 | 0 reaction(s) | add reaction | add news |
Consisting of five tracks all under the four minute mark, The Open Door EP is as breezy and swift as its very title.
The songs on the CD were tracks recorded during the process of creating their 2008 L.P Narrow Stairs but left off for one reason or another. You’d expect the tracks to sound of a similar nature to their more successful Narrow Stairs brothers but the first curve ball thrown at the listener is introductory track Little Bribes. It springs to life with country strings and a tin-can-kick percussion rhythm. Within seconds Ben Gibbard shouts his way to the front of the track, demanding your attention. “The Eiffel Tower built to smaller scale, the freshest oxygen I ever inhaled”. It’s vastly different for Death Cab and shows a playful nature we haven’t particularly seen before. Oh, and its catchy as hell.
A Diamond And A Tether slips straight into Death Cab auto-pilot and is ultimately a downer to its predecessors joviality. Its boring verse rhythm is saved by the slightly more dramatic chorus but suffice to say, you don’t want this sort of mediocrity on a CD with just five tracks.
Narrow Stairs was a great record but there were definitely two or three tracks that had filler stamped all over them; Your New Twin Sized Bed was just too simple and forgetful and You Can Do Better Than Me was less than two minutes and too poppy to sit comfortably as a Death Cab song. Luckily, this EP’s only unimpressive track was the aforementioned A Diamond And A Tether and the rest of the material sits far above its uninspired manner and tone.
Death Cab thrive on clever guitar work and Gibbard's ability to flawlessly follow a melody and on My Mirror Speaks, both those elements combine for a slice of everything that makes Death Cab one of the better bands around today. It’s less experimental than their earlier work (and we still miss those days) but even the lighter side of the bands personality can be vastly entertaining and this track encompasses that persona perfectly. Stamping percussions and a quiet bass swirl around Gibbard's lyrical flow: “I’m a man who hides from all that binds, and a mess of fading lines. And there’s a tangled thread inside my head with nothing on either end”.
The final track is an acoustic demo of Talking Birds taken from Narrow Stairs and it’s just as enjoyable as the original. Just Gibbard and a ukulele are present, slowly entwining around one another for just over three minutes. It’s slower than the original and takes on an almost ethereal, sun-drenched character, sitting lazily on an upsided bucket on a hazy afternoon in the summer (or something).
The only remaining track is I Was Once A Loyal Lover and though it’s a decent enough song not to disappoint, we just wish there was something more experimental and impending than five tracks of relatively up-beat musicality. The track's highlight is the last third where the whirlwind of indie-rock dies down to just a gentle string and Gibbard’s gentle, almost falsetto vocals.
Whether you favoured Narrow Stairs or found it a little too ‘dumbed down’ in places, then rest assured that either way, your opinion won’t change much with this EP. It’s a decent record with some interesting material (especially intro-track Little Bribes) and though it’s rather light and airy, it does fill the gap between now and their next full-length. We just wish someone would’ve closed that open door a little, it’s too breezy in here.
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