Article: Death Cab for Cutie loses the rock bombast for elegance

Death Cab for Cutie loses the rock bombast for elegance

By JON M. GILBERTSON

Special to the Journal Sentinel

Friday, May 19, 2000

Beyond the catch-all phrase "We wanna rock," few bands can articulate their musical vision. (Most don't really have a vision, or the ability to articulate what they'd like for dinner -- but that's another article.) Death Cab for Cutie, however, can sum it up neatly.

"Great pop songs without the bombast," guitarist and lead singer Ben Hibbard says. "I've become so turned off by large-guitar, Marshall-half-stack, power-chord pop-rock. That kind of bouncy stuff doesn't do it for me anymore."

On its second album, "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes," Death Cab ...

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