Album: Transatlanticism
Year: 2003
Like a few others of their Pacific Northwest contemporaries that started around the turn of the century — Modest Mouse, Long Winters, The Decemberists, etc — I missed the very early Death Cab For Cutie albums, not discovering them until they made an album that one way or another cut through the static.
In the case of Death Cab For Cutie, that album was Transatanticism, though how it came into my life, whether via the radio or album reviews or even on one of those TV shows aimed at millennials, I have no idea. I’m just glad it did, if for no other reason that the epic title track.
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