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	Transatlanticism Death Cab for Cutie Barsuk, 2003 average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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This SACD defies the rule that the better the album, the worse the sound. I recently played this album for friends of mine on a TOP NOTCH (10K) audio system and everyone was floored. They initially thought the name of the band gave them a clue as to the nature of the music. They were wrong. There's nothing "cute" about this band. The lyrics range from beautiful (passenger's seat) to the incredibly, painfully brutal (tiny vessels) and "Lightness" is the best track I've heard in at least a year.

If you have an SACD player, BUY THIS!

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The Best

This is such a beautiful album from an excellent band. Every track is mastered with perfect subtlety and is an experience to listen from start to finish. Anything with Ben Gibbard vocals is worth a 5 star rating, but Transatlanticism deserves more and makes me antsy for their next release 'Plans'. As for the SACD option, I love it. It's 2.1 so for most people it's just like listening to a regular CD but you can definitely tell the difference in the hightened quality when pumping up the volume or listening on uncolored headphones. I've been listening to this album for months on tracks bought from iTunes, so the bump in quality is drastic for me, but if you already own the album, the SACD version is strictly for Audiophiles (unless it were DVD-Audio).

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Ben voice is the greatest instrument DCFC could ever use...

The sheer joy one feels when listening to this album is uncanny. From the ever popular "sound of settling" to the cult favorite "tiny vessels" and "transatlanticism" this disc has something for everyone...


Good but...

Excellent CD. The distinct dreamy guitars and desriptive prose are there. Not to diminish the quality of this release, but I smell some late Superchunk in a couple tracks.

The SACD ability is nice too so long as it doesn't go the way of Betamax...



Tracks
The New Year | Lightness | Title and Registration | Expo '86 | The Sound of Settling | Tiny Vessels | Transatlanticism | Passenger Seat | Death of an Interior Decorator | We Looked Like Giants | A Lack of Color

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