Death Cab For Cutie: A Movie Script Ending

Death Cab For Cutie recall Modest Mouse and a faster paced Mercury Rev, gentle but powerful music sprawling from the revitalised post-grunge indie-scene of the Pacific northwest. "A Movie Script Ending", for want of a better phrase, is suitably gorgeous.

A poignant acoustic jangle opens the song, and as lead man Benjamen Gibbard's vocal chimes, a special sonic adventure is confirmed. "Now we all know the words were true in the sappiest songs " Gibbard seems to have tapped into the desolate indie world’s troubled psyche, and knows precisely what they think.

Indeed Gibbard's lyrics are perfectly observed vignettes, a cut above the stereotypical Dave Matthews-type norm. "We peered through the windows: new bottoms on barstools but the people remain the same, with prices inflating" This, for the first time in ages, is REALITY in a pop song.

Gibbard ruminates and ruminates, over subtle, chiming guitars and a soaring, epic chorus. Nothing wholly original, granted, but incredibly charming, nonetheless.

From brooding to buoyant, "A Movie Script Ending" sounds classic from the very first listen.