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You Can Play These Songs With Chords
Rock · 1997 · 8 tracks

You Can Play These Songs With Chords

Death Cab for Cutie

A dusty, four-track cassette time capsule. Raw, earnest indie rock sketches recorded in a bedroom before the band was even a band.

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It's the sound of Ben Gibbard alone in his room with a four-track and a lot of feelings.

A restless, youthful yearning captured through the warm haze of a cassette recorder.

You Can Play These Songs With Chords · vs · Death Cab for Cutie
Lo Fi+3.1σ

The production is built around lo fi than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 8 Tracks
01
President of What?
4:06
02
Champagne From a Paper Cup
2:34
03
Pictures in an Exhibition
4:02
04
Hindsight
3:47
05
That’s Incentive
2:13
06
Amputations
4:03
07
Two Cars
3:31
08
Line of Best Fit
5:49
Moments Worth Waiting For
The brittle, overdriven guitar crunch that kicks off 'President of What?' setting the lo-fi tone.
The way the vocal melody in 'Amputations' feels fragile and unpolished compared to later studio versions.
The extended, feedback-tinged outro of 'Line of Best Fit' that fades into tape hiss.
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