The Photo Album by Death Cab for Cutie

The Photo Album, Death Cab for Cutie's third studio album, came out on Barsuk on October 9, 2001, produced by the band's own guitarist Chris Walla, with Ben Gibbard singing, Nick Harmer on bass and Michael Schorr on drums, his only full-length turn behind the kit. It's the Bellingham band's melodic, sensitive indie rock getting sharper and brighter, Gibbard's introspective songwriting riding guitars that chime more than they crunch.

It was their first album to produce charting songs: "A Movie Script Ending", "I Was a Kaleidoscope" and "We Laugh Indoors" all made the UK Singles Chart, and "A Movie Script Ending" became the first of three Death Cab songs to turn up on The O.C. The Stability EP gathered up bonus tracks in early 2002, and a deluxe edition stuffed with demos and outtakes followed in 2021. Two years on, Transatlanticism would make them a much bigger deal.

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