Something About Airplanes
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| Studio album by Death Cab for Cutie | |||||
| Released | August 18, 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Length | 43:21 | ||||
| Label | Barsuk/Elsinor | ||||
| Producer | Christopher Walla | ||||
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Something About Airplanes is the 1998 debut LP from the indie band Death Cab for Cutie. Early recordings of eight songs from this album can be found on the You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation. Those tracks would eventually be re-recorded for this album.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Bend to Squares" (Gibbard/Walla) – 4:33
- "President of What?" (Gibbard) – 4:01
- "Champagne from a Paper Cup" (Gibbard) – 2:38
- "Your Bruise" (Gibbard/Walla) – 4:19
- "Pictures in an Exhibition" (Gibbard) – 3:49
- "Sleep Spent" (Gibbard/Walla) – 3:37
- "The Face That Launched 1000 Shits" (Jay Chilcote) – 3:41
- "Amputations" (Gibbard) – 4:54
- "Fake Frowns" (Gibbard/Walla) – 4:30
- "Line of Best Fit" (Gibbard) – 7:14[1]
[edit] Personnel
- Benjamin Gibbard – vocals, guitar, small piano
- Nathan Good – drums
- Nicholas Harmer – bass
- Christopher Walla – guitar, organ, electric piano
[edit] Additional musicians
- Erika Jacobs played, wrote and arranged the cello on "Bend to Squares" and "The Face That Launched 1000 Shits".
- Abi Hall sang on "Line of Best Fit."
- Recorded and produced by Christopher Walla at the Hall of Justice. Mixed by Christopher Walla and Nathan Good. Mastered by Tony Lash.
[edit] Album art
Curiously, despite the title referring to airplanes, the image on the album cover is of a rowboat. The image is actually seen through hole in the cover per se and a sheet of vellum. [2] Like the band's 2000 releases, the text is set entirely in lower case.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Death Cab For Cutie: Discography: Something About Airplanes. Official Death Cab for Cutie Website. Retrieved on 2008-04-13.
- ^ Tim Frommer. DAA Artist Archive: Death Cab for Cutie. Dancing About Architecture. Retrieved on 2008-04-13.
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