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March 25, 2008

Death Cab For Cutie's Narrow Stairs Album Art

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The jammy, eight-minute "I Will Possess Your Heart" was the first step along Narrow Stairs; graphic designers, we have the second. We've obscured the cover art via rectangular collage for that thumbnail to heighten the suspense, but the proper and pristine cover obviously features more surprising and discrete images.

Just kidding that was totally a fair and accurate representation of how it looks.

Narrow Stairs is out 5/13 on Atlantic.

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I like it.

Posted by: Miles at 03/25/08 4:37 PM | Reply
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This band seriously might be the gheyest band in the history of indie-rock music. Their new song just songs like another swollen vagina track. Their cranberry juice indie stuff drives me nuts.

Posted by: Fred at 03/25/08 4:46 PM | Reply
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4 minutes without vocals. that's what i call a single. jimmy page would be proud of that. i can't wait to go to a show and see a lot of disappointed 15 year old girls.

Posted by: Brent profile link at 03/25/08 4:58 PM | Reply
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Scott

This is one of the those things where if I slowly step away from my computer it will look increasingly like Abe Lincoln?

Posted by: Scott profile link at 03/25/08 5:00 PM | Reply
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Death Cab are trying to be fArtsy again with minimalistic album design. At least it looks better than Plans and probably will sound better, which is a good thing (since i consider plans to be a really shitty album)

Posted by: powx profile link at 03/25/08 5:01 PM | Reply
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Too bad it's not actually "minimalist" cover art by any means or you'd be right.

Posted by: Andrew at 03/25/08 5:09 PM | Reply
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you guys are probably judging them on their last two albums. try to work backwards on their 4+ albums and then tell me how much they've changed. narrow stairs is gonna be really different.

Posted by: paul at 03/25/08 5:14 PM | Reply
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plans wasn't has bad as everyone claims, I SWEAR! please :{

Posted by: donthate at 03/25/08 5:22 PM | Reply
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ah, the art...it's nice. i like. the band? eh, not so much...

Posted by: grandma smitty at 03/25/08 5:23 PM | Reply
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k

tweezers and super glue.

Posted by: k profile link at 03/25/08 5:43 PM | Reply
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Yeah, that's a pretty cool cover. I like it. I'll admit not everything on Plans was great, but I'm still interested in hearing this.

Posted by: Jeff at 03/25/08 6:02 PM | Reply
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mmmhm....interesting? im actually very excited for the next album.Plans left me a bit....disappointed.

Posted by: gaby profile link at 03/25/08 6:17 PM | Reply
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that album cover sucks. come on

Posted by: foundmyrosebud01 profile link at 03/25/08 6:59 PM | Reply
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The album art looks like a flag...an American flag. I think this album is going to be a sweet allusion to the population being misguided by politicians backed up by a willing media that won't really ask questions...or maybe it's about love and hearts and relavent things.

Posted by: Matt Abramson at 03/25/08 7:27 PM | Reply
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The album art looks like a flag...an American flag. I think this album is going to be a sweet allusion to the population being misguided by politicians backed up by a willing media that won't really ask questions...or maybe it's about love and hearts and relavent things.

Posted by: Matt Abramson at 03/25/08 7:27 PM | Reply
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The album art looks like a flag...an American flag. I think this album is going to be a sweet allusion to the population being misguided by politicians backed up by a willing media that won't really ask questions...or maybe it's about love and hearts and relavent things.

Posted by: Matt Abramson at 03/25/08 7:28 PM | Reply
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i like it a lot. i think DCFC is trying to run away from Plans and go in an entirely new direction and i wish them well. although i was still quite satisfied with Plans, though it isn't there best work.

Posted by: Nate profile link at 03/25/08 9:23 PM | Reply
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HEYYYY, it sorta looks like there's a perfume ad being obscured by those "creatively" arranged reactangles... you know, like one of those ads where everyone's pretty, tan and bland and there's a golden retriever and a boat in the background.

Posted by: @meli@ at 03/25/08 10:37 PM | Reply
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I like it. I guess. I just can't help but get the feeling that I've made this in Paint before.

Posted by: kinda_alright profile link at 03/25/08 10:39 PM | Reply
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I like the font. It reminds me of the album covers of their older albums.

Posted by: Alex at 03/26/08 1:17 AM | Reply
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dj kayslay calls death cab for cutie death crabs for ugly bitch indie rock pussy shit! KAYSLAY! what? DRAMA KING! got my guns ! papoose! !nacirema!american! palindrome! street SWEEPER!

death cab run away from kayslay ere he drops an anvil on yo head! run bitch run!

I'm old greg!

Posted by: your madukes profile link at 03/26/08 2:10 AM | Reply
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Death Cab is a hot mess with their bad selves! They always is good, girl.

Posted by: Duke at 03/26/08 6:33 AM | Reply
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Yeah, it lacks originality. Everyone here seems to like it, because popular culture tells them to. TOTB.

Posted by: Faith at 03/26/08 11:28 AM | Reply
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Yeah, it lacks originality. Everyone here seems to like it, because popular culture tells them to. TOTB.

Posted by: Faith at 03/26/08 11:28 AM | Reply
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The Construction Paper Album? Where were you when you first heard it?

Posted by: ManUtd17 at 03/26/08 1:46 PM | Reply
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The Construction Paper Album. Where were you when you first heard it?

Posted by: ManUtd17 at 03/26/08 1:46 PM | Reply
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Apparently Jackson Pollock is alive and painting album covers these days.

Posted by: Adam at 03/26/08 8:31 PM | Reply
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i'm sorry adam, but you have no idea what you're talking about. do you really think this looks like jackson pollock or were you just naming the first abstract artist that came to your head? because if you had any knowledge of art, i should hope you could come up with a better comparison than that. besides the fact that they're both "abstract", this cover and pollock's work couldn't be more different in terms of expression, color etc. before you insult another piece of art or artist, i suggest you take into account that you are not an artist and will probably just sound dumb to anyone around you who has a clue.

have a nice day.

Posted by: sara in reply to Adam's comment at 05/12/08 3:27 AM | Reply
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This would've been avant-garde in '60s but in today's world it just looks like a badly pixelated HDTV image.

Posted by: Eludium-Q36 at 03/27/08 11:10 AM | Reply
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It actually looks like it could be a Fugazi album cover to me for some reason.

Posted by: Evan at 03/28/08 8:08 PM | Reply
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I like the right half of the cover art.
the left is too blue.. and more boring

Posted by: kaylee at 03/30/08 1:59 AM | Reply
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I Loved the new song..

I'm Excited! i Finally get to see them June 3rd in Chi-town!

Posted by: Vagabond at 04/17/08 4:05 PM | Reply
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This reminds me of the band's nostalgic side. I guess symbolically it takes me back to the basic theme of The Photo Album, and to me it represents snippets of what they've been through or places they've traveled. That's just my interpretation :)

Posted by: nymadisonavenue profile link at 05/20/08 4:28 PM | Reply
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The album is another great adition to their already sterling catalogue of melodic indie-rock. I personally discovered the band through an O.C. episode i stumbled upon... and thank whoevers upstairs i did.

The Ice Is Getting Thinner... is for me, a phenominal song! I can personally relate to the lyrics as a current relationship of mine, coincidently, was taking the exact turns the song expresses.

Thank you Death Cab for another exceptional collection of eagerly anticipated music.

Posted by: Pig Skin Noir at 05/30/08 5:46 AM | Reply
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Death Cab For Cutie is wonderful. So some of the tracks on Plans weren't that great, but comeeeee on! This album cover is nice, and different. Think about it, it doesn't have someone posing or the band looking all lame and shiz. It's cool. And I'm sure the music which the album contains is even cooler :)

Posted by: Zoe at 06/19/08 6:43 PM | Reply
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you obviously have no appreciation for art fred (lemme guess - simple plan fan? or are you one of them 'hardcore' folk) and when you say 'gheyest' are you referring to your closet orientation because your use of the word vagina cleary indicates ur lack of contact with one.
its insensitive fuckeads like you that never get laid. grow up and get buttfucked already.

Posted by: Kirby at 10/31/08 11:12 PM | Reply
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you are all idiots who think death cab isn't good. they are by far the best band that we have now and they aren't trying to be fArtsy with the album cover dumbass

Posted by: tim kelly at 11/29/08 6:28 PM | Reply
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