Death Cab for Cutie
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Death Cab for Cutie is an American indie-rock band that was formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997.
Death Cab for Cutie began as a solo project of *Ben Gibbard* while he was the guitarist for the band Pinwheel. As Death Cab for Cutie, Gibbard released a cassette, titled *You Can Play These Songs with Chords*. Formally, at this time, Death Cab for Cutie was Ben Gibbard, *Chris Walla* and *Nicholas Harmer*. It was surprisingly successful, and Gibbard decided to expand the project into a complete band, with Walla and Harmer becoming formal members. He also recruited Nathan Good to play drums. In this formation they released the LP *Something About Airplanes* in the summer of 1998. The album got favorable reviews from the independent music scene, and in 2000, the follow-up was released: *We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes*.
Nathan Good left the band at some point during the recording of We Have the Facts. His playing on “The Employment Pages” and “Company Calls Epilogue” were kept, but Gibbard played drums on all other songs. New drummer *Michael Schorr* would first appear on The Forbidden Love E.P., released in fall of 2000. The following year, another LP was released, entitled *The PhotoAlbum*.
In 2003, there was another change of drummer. *Jason McGerr* played drums on the next release, Transatlanticism, which came out in October of 2003.
*Transatlanticism* received critical praise and also became the band’s top-selling album, with 225,000 copies sold during its first year out. Tracks from the album appeared in the soundtrack of television shows The O.C. and Six Feet Under and the 2005 movie The Wedding Crashers.
In spring of 2004, the band recorded a live album titled *The John Byrd E.P*, which was released on Barsuk Records in March of 2005.
Album *Plans* was released in August of 2005 and received a nomination for the Grammy Award for “Best Alternative Album of 2005″.
*Discography*
Full Lengths
* Plans - August 2005
* Transatlanticism - October 2003
* The Photo Album - October 2001
* We Have The Facts And We’re Voting Yes - March 2000
* Something About Airplanes -August 1998
* You Can Play These Songs With Chords - November 1999
Singles and EPs
* John Byrd EP - March 2005
* The Studio X Sessions - August 2004
* The New Year - 2003
* The Stability EP - February 2002
* We Laugh Indoors - October 2002
* I Was A Kaleidoscope - July 2002
* A Movie Script Ending - 2001
* The Death Cab For Cutie Forbidden Love EP - October 2000
* Underwater! - March 2000
* Prove My Hypotheses - September 1999
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