Blog: Pitchfork: Forkcast

Neil Young-opening Seattle rockers Death Cab for Cutie take a few steps forward and a couple of steps backward on their newest album, Narrow Stairs . The poignantly realized minor everyday tragedy of " Cath... " -- which combines Ben Gibbard's vivid, succinct, and conflicted storytelling with gnarled Pacific Northwest indie-rock-style backing-- is one of the band's surest steps yet. Death Cab's restrained performance on "The Tonight Show" Halloween night puts the song's best foot forward, as Gibbard's [...]