Blog: Consequence Of Sound

On "Home Is a Fire", the opening track of Death Cab for Cutie 's seventh studio album, Codes and Keys, Ben Gibbard sings of "attempting a clean break, with nowhere left to go"-appropriately addressing the album's place in the Seattle institution's extended catalog. The first part of that line manifests itself clearly throughout Keys ' 11 tracks, even at first listen, with visible straying from the melancholic themes, straightforward instrumentation, and emotional punch that characterized their career up to this point. The second half functions as an explanation of the first: The members of [...]