Transatlanticism
- 艺人
- Death Cab for Cutie
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Barsuk Records
- 发行时间
- 2003年10月07日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
就在三张专辑发行後，团员各自回到最初，Chris Walla跑去制作其他艺人(Nada Surf)的专辑，Ben Gibbard与好友兼制作人Jimmy Tamborello合组The Postal Service将电子与indie rock结合，发行了《Give Up》专辑，不仅获得Billboard热门潜力榜冠军，还缔造了超过60万张的销量成绩。休息再出发的2003年专辑《Transatlanticism》不仅获得Billboard独立专辑榜第8名，连专辑同名曲也出现在《六尺风云》的影集中，AMG给予四颗半星的高评，至今在美国的销售也超过了35万张，对於一组在独立音乐圈打滚的乐团而言，这些佳绩都证明了DCFC拥有比主流团体更响亮的名声与能耐。
by Rob Theakston
As musical lunacy goes, things have gotten as crazy as it gets for Death Cab for Cutie since 2002's You Can Play These Songs With Chords compilation. A wildly successful tour with Dismemberment Plan, a collaboration for singer Ben Gibbard with emo-electronic guru Dntel under the Postal Service moniker, and a whole new legion of fans swooning to Gibbard's lyrics as if he were a modern day answer to Kiss Me-era Robert Smith have all amassed considerable hype around Transatlanticism. But the group proves themselves more than equal to the task, answering the call and proving the cynics wrong with their most focused and most mature work in their entire catalog. Transatlanticism wastes absolutely no time and dives in head first with "The New Year," one of the most melodramatic openings to an album since the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The mellow, mixed-meter percussion and dense atmosphere of "Lightness" is a brilliant lead into the pop-happy "Expo '86" and "The Sound of Settling" before setting up the climatic and intensely dramatic title track. Unconsciously taking a page from Blur's "Sing," the hypnotic drumming and guitar call and responses through the eight-minute climax of the album are backed with a singalong finale that unquestionably will have every audience on the next tour singing along and holding up their lighters. And while most albums would be left exhausted after such a track, the group keeps things moving, albeit at a much slower pace than compared to the anthems that packed the first half. Gibbard seamlessly makes the transition between songs that full out rock to songs that are comparable to Elliott Smith's finest hour with great ease. But it's Gibbard's poetic lyrics and signature introspection that remain a bench mark for Death Cab; and it's the group's maturity as musicians as well as songwriters that make Transatlanticism such a decadently good listen from start to finish. The band has never sounded more cohesive, the track sequencing is brilliant, and it caps off a triumphant year for not only Gibbard, but a band whose time and greater recognition is finally due.
热门评论
- @立可白灰灰：2007年我在男友的ipod里听到这张专辑，当时没有觉得他品味很好，真的没有觉得很好。今年他要结婚了，品味依旧不好，真的不好。
最新简评（共55条）
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