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(Barzuk Records)
Remember dream pop? Probably not, it was usually boring lightweight music with some skinny European wailing about lost love and depression (not goth), yadda yadda yadda. I never thought this genre could really produce anything of worth. Until I heard Washington’s contribution to the cause, Death Cab for Cutie.
These current indie rock darlings have given us a bit of product to hold us over till an official follow up to their last full length (We Have The Facts And We’re Voting Yes) can be completed. I must say I am quite impressed with this EP. Containing three new songs and two acoustic versions of previously released songs, I was expecting a ramshackle collection but this release has a cohesiveness to it as all their work so far seems to. The first song on the album, “Photobooth”, has received a fair amount of airplay on college radio and rightfully so; a better pop song(in the good sense of the phrase) can’t be found anywhere. The acoustic reworkings of older songs on the disc(“405” and “Company Call Epilogue”) give a new intimacy to the songs and succeed their earlier recorded versions by bringing the volume down a bit. The two other new songs on the disc vary greatly in quality. “Song for Kelly Huckaby” is classic DC/FC, a plodding tempo, sing songy vocals and atmospheric guitar parts. “Technicolor Girls” seems an attempt at a more straightforward pop song. Unfortunately, due to the boringness of the music and utter badness of the words it arrives dead to your ears. Overall, a great ep, you get your money’s worth, just skip track 2.
http://www.barsuk.com/dcfc/
By Matt
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