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Pacific Northwest alt-rockers Death Cab for Cutie [ tickets ] return with their seventh studio album, "Narrow Stairs," an altogether darker and more introspective collection of songs than anything the band has attempted to date.
On the group's previous album, 2005's "Plans," frontman/lead singer Ben Gibbard traded on the sort of youthful, angsty melancholy that has been a hallmark of his songwriting since the band's beginning; by contrast, "Narrow Stairs" immediately throws listeners into a darker sort of place than they will have ever experienced before on a Death Cab record, with Gibbard retreating to the edge of America on the album's opener, "Bixby Canyon Bridge," to the edge of the Pacific Ocean, but for what? "You wonder if you're missing your dream," he sings as buzzing guitars swirl around him like ocean gales. "You just can't see your dream."
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