From Barsuk Barsuk Records Re-Issues 10th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition version of Death Cab for Cutie's debut Something About Airplanes! (... and finally 180 gram vinyl version of Narrow Stairs) Exciting news!
Barsuk
Records is pleased to announce that we will be re-issuing Death Cab for
Cutie’s classic 1998 debut album, Something About Airplanes,
on November 25th. This limited edition deluxe 10-year
anniversary CD edition will include a bonus disc featuring a recently-unearthed
recording of the band’s first-ever Seattle show, a February 1998 set at the
legendary venue The Crocodile Café. The reissue will also feature beautifully
redesigned artwork, including extensive liner notes by noted musician and writer
Sean Nelson (whose band Harvey Danger was the headliner of the bonus disc show,
and who sings lead vocals on the DCfC set’s never-before-heard cover of
The Smiths' “Sweet and Tender Hooligan”). Death Cab for Cutie originally
formed in Bellingham, WA, in 1997 with their cassette-only Elsinor Records
release (recorded by Chris Walla and played almost exclusively
by Ben Gibbard) You Can Play These Songs with Chords
(later reissued on CD along with bonus archival material by Barsuk).
Something About Airplanes was the first album recorded by the full
band, following the addition of Nick Harmer (bass) and
Nathan Good (drums) – it was released jointly by Barsuk and Elsinor in
late 1998 (and initially distributed by the fledgling labels via consignment at
local retailers such as Sonic Boom, Easy
Street, and the now-defunct Fallout).
The group has consistently
released outstanding albums over the years, gaining a wider audience and seeping
into the consciousness of mainstream America with the success of their latest
albums, the most recent of which were released by Atlantic Records. The band
remains a core member of the Barsuk family, however, and Barsuk is still home to
We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes (2000), The Photo Album
(2001), Transatlanticism (2003), along with the 2005 double 180-gram
vinyl version of the Atlantic Records release Plans (complete with the
vinyl-only bonus track "Talking Like Turnstiles") and a handful of EP releases
and DCfC side-projects [including the Ben Gibbard lo-fi solo project
All-Time Quarterback CD reissue (2002), the Chris Walla solo
album Field Manual (2008), as well as the Steve Fisk & Benjamin
Gibbard score to the film Kurt Cobain About a Son
(2008)]. |
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