Transatlanticism is beautiful. I don't call many albums beautiful, and it takes a truely great album to be named beautiful, but this album is definitely beautiful.
From beginning to end it is full of gentle, sweeping songs, huge choruses and breath taking vocals that will have you wanting more and more.
Opener The New Year couldn't be any more perfect to open this album, and it does it in such an epc way. Title And Regestration has got to be one of the best pop songs ever written. Tiny Vessels has me recalling my life. The title track is the best of them all - a seven minute, sweeping epic love of huge proportions. It is one of my favourite songs of all time and with good reason. And Passenger Seat, with it's gentle piano refraim and mellow vocals will have you wishing you were with Ben Gibbard as he sings it.
Transatlanticism is one of those albums that has the ability to change you life. Death Cab For Cutie have released alot of amazing albums, but none of them have,… more »

Transatlanticism is beautiful. I don't call many albums beautiful, and it takes a truely great album to be named beautiful, but this album is definitely beautiful.
From beginning to end it is full of gentle, sweeping songs, huge choruses and breath taking vocals that will have you wanting more and more.
Opener The New Year couldn't be any more perfect to open this album, and it does it in such an epc way. Title And Regestration has got to be one of the best pop songs ever written. Tiny Vessels has me recalling my life. The title track is the best of them all - a seven minute, sweeping epic love of huge proportions. It is one of my favourite songs of all time and with good reason. And Passenger Seat, with it's gentle piano refraim and mellow vocals will have you wishing you were with Ben Gibbard as he sings it.
Transatlanticism is one of those albums that has the ability to change you life. Death Cab For Cutie have released alot of amazing albums, but none of them have, nor (i doubt) ever will be as amazing as this album, if even for the title track alone.