Asphalt Meadows
Death Cab’s mix of youthful fragility and deep, romantic yearning is one of the hallmarks of modern rock. Even at their most melodramatic, they maintain composure in ways their emo ancestors didn’t, and their 10th album in a now-25-year career is no exception. But like the imagery behind its title, *Asphalt Meadows* is a rougher sound than the sometimes porcelain smoothness of their 2010s albums, mining similar tender—brisk New Wave (“I Miss Strangers,” “Asphalt Meadows”), gentle Americana (“Rand McNally”), and big, atmospheric ballads (“I’ll Never Give Up On You”). As always, Ben Gibbard reaches to make specifics feel universal (“We lived on whiskey and Twizzlers”) and universals (“These days I miss strangers more than I miss my friends”) feel like he somehow wrote them just for you.
New 11-track album 'Asphalt Meadows' out now.
At last, the band’s 10th album restores their creative momentum. If the songs don’t feel as lived-in, at least they unlock the repressed memory of what it was like to be deeply moved by Death Cab for Cutie.
10 albums and 25 years into their career, the Washington indie veterans return mature and assured but loaded with that early melodic magic
Death Cab For Cutie hone in on their status as purveyors of emotionally charged indie while adding flourishes to keep the beating heart of it all alive on Asphalt Meadows
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The Washington quintet’s tenth album is a reflective collation of calmness and chaos in an ever-changing world.
With 25 years and 10 albums under their belt, Death Cab for Cutie are at an interesting point in their career. They're not quite a legacy ac...
Death Cab for Cutie’s 10th studio album Asphalt Meadows represents a return to the band’s classic sound, most strongly resembling 2000’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes and 2011’s Codes and Keys.
Death Cab for Cutie show their place in the indie rock pantheon on 'Asphalt Meadows' while also producing music deserving of consideration with some of their best early work.
Asphalt Meadows by Death Cab For Cutie album review by Greg Walker. The band's full-length is now available via Atlantic Records
In a 2019 interview promoting Death Cab for Cutie’s back-to-basics ninth album Thank You for Today, oft-caricatured front man Ben Gibbard expressed doubts about his band’s recent output: “Over the course of our albums, we’ve strayed too far from an m. o. that I’ve tried to maintain and sometimes lost: Always know what you’re good at, but also try to step outside what you’re good at and try something new with every record.”
There’s a certain gravity to a band releasing their 10th studio album. It’s basically the equivalent of a particularly momentous birthday, a symbol of what has come and how there is still more down the pike. For Death Cab For Cutie, this occasion is worth celebrating, as it also signifies their 25th year putting out
Death Cab for Cutie - Asphalt Meadows review: Time passed and that was that
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