We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes by Death Cab for Cutie

We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, Death Cab for Cutie's second album, came out on Barsuk on March 21, 2000, and it's the sound of a Bellingham, Washington band figuring out who they were after drummer Nathan Good left following Something About Airplanes. What was left, Ben Gibbard, guitarist and producer Chris Walla and bassist Nick Harmer, spent five months piecing it together, tracking in their parents' houses.

It's a quiet, gray-skied record, all brittle guitar lines and slowcore drag, and Gibbard fills it with the jitters of kids just out of college who have no clue what comes next. For the first time he mixes straight storytelling with hazier, more abstract imagery, and critics singled out his writing for praise. There were no singles; instead the band went out on their first full national tour, with Jayson Tolzdorf-Larson on drums, and followed up with The Forbidden Love EP a few months later.

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