"Home Is a Fire" by Death Cab for Cutie, Thursday, November 11, 2021
Codes and Keys was a very different Death Cab for Cutie album. The records prior to the band's 2011 album were guitar-based, but the band's producer and guitarist Chris Walla and lead singer Ben Gibbard decided to make guitar a secondary feature of the band's seventh album. Furthermore, the band broke with the melancholy, producing what listeners found to be a decidedly more upbeat, positive Death Cab record. Codes and Keys was written and released in a time when Ben Gibbard was married to actress Zooey Deschanel. But just as everything seemed to be going well--a number 1 Alternative hit and a number 1-selling rock album--the success wouldn't last. PLATES, THEY WILL SHIFT. I’ve talked about how Death Cab for Cutie was so influential on my college experience . I don't think I'm in a unique position, though, because Death Cab was the cool band for twenty-somethings for half a decade before Plans. The spiritually ambiguity of the record seemed to speak to millennia