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That's Entertainment : Death Cab For Cutie

First up, let me allay your fears: Death Cab For Cutie are not some death metal act intent on excising you of your soul. They are, however, a rock act who like to twist your heartstrings and leave you an emotional wreck, killing you with heart aching, heart breaking, gloom-pop that’s great if you want to get yourself up for watching The Notebook.

With poetic song titles that evoke emotional turmoil, love lost and the human condition, Death Cab For Cutie are a band that have been around for almost 20 years. They were appropriated as a flag waver for the 2000’s ‘emo [emotional] rock’ genre because of their downbeat sound and poetic lyrics however it was in 2003 via Adam Brody’s Seth Cohen role in The O.C. that DCFC gained widespread notice. Appearing on the soundtrack for 2009’s Twilight : New Moon caught them more ‘teens’ looking to sob in to their diaries.

A number of brilliantly crafted albums have seen DCFC slowly become a big-selling rock band with an impeccable live act. Having seen them a few times in the past couple of years, the lads in DCFC certainly serve up a live show that is impossible to ignore. And despite the ‘emotional’ leanings of their music, the band are jovial chaps, well versed in rock history and ply their trade with much gusto.

Singer, guitarist and writer [the main man] Ben Gibbard was also briefly married to Zooey Deschanel and the latest DCFC album, Kintsugi, is a result of that marital disintegration. Better still, Ben Gibbard was one half of another band The Postal Service which release a masterpiece in 2004 [their single Such Great Heights was used by Telstra in the past 2 years for ads].

And if you want to cry - like quite literally sob uncontrollably - try listening to What Sarah Said. A song about a true-love dying, the dying patient’s words to her lover are “Love is watching someone die”…So who’s going to watch you die?

Yep. Choked up.

Anyway. It’s not all miserablism. There’s some lovely pop gems as well.

But I’ll leave that up to you. I’m out of here!

Taxi!!!!

Ahem…Death Cab For Cutie.

Death Cab For Cutie

Your Bruise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j5nmI3Rk3g

A Movie Clip Ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77We-tPmScs

Transatlanticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3b6hDCIeDk

Soul Meets Body http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizQVriWp8M

Summer Skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l8TjYfpq1Y

What Sarah Said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctu0uYL5jlo