Death Cab for Cutie Black Cab Session

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Death Cab for Cutie have hopped into the passenger seat of one of those Black Cab Sessions. The thoughtful Pacific Northwest rockers are poised to score their first-ever No. 1 album with the just-released Narrow Stairs, and here Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla give a strong acoustic rendition of one of that album’s highlights, the sunny loss-of-innocence song “No Sunlight”. The sunshine streaming onto Death Cab’s shoulders through the black cab’s windows is actually a good evocation of the gleaming warmth of childhood, which Gibbard describes: “When I was young lying in the grass/ I felt so safe in a warming bath/ Of sunlight, of sunlight.” The actual sunlight in the video pretty much stays there, even as Gibbard sings matter-of-factly about the sunlight– and the optimism inside of him– dying doornail dead. Hope the harmonies cheer these guys up, but not before Gibbard writes a few more like this one.
The Album is amazing
This session is amazing
The band are amazing

Video:> Death Cab for Cutie: “No Sunlight” (Black Cab Session)
[original track from Narrow Stairs; out now on Atlantic]

2008 Gareth Murran.