Stability [EP]试听专辑介绍
Death Cab brought forth this EP to coincide with a tour with Dismemberment Plan (dubbed, with great wit, "The Death and Dismemberment Tour"). Since the Seattle foursome's EP just prior to the album, Photobooth, was just as fantastic, there was every reason to anticipate this one too with licked chops. So it's a curt shock to find this one so incredibly without worth. Even without comparing it to a song of the timeless caliber of "Photobooth," the A-side here, "20th Century Towers," is a meandering piece of pointless scribble. It's as offhand a throwaway as one could imagine, from a group whose mixture of bright but brooding guitar textures and Ben Gibbard's stunningly detailed lyrics has been so distinctive and strong. Nothing happens, nothing moves for a glum and dull four-and-a-half-minutes, like a frowning Little League kid staring out a window at gameday rain. The promise of the piano-tussled "Stability" also fades into tedium by hovering uninvited for 12 minutes. There is no earth...
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