- indie rock, rock
- 45 min
- 11 tracks
- Atlantic
Narrow Stairs is the sixth studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released on May 12, 2008, in the United Kingdom and on May 13, 2008, in the United States, on Atlantic and Barsuk Records.
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Character
Spare, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 73/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubA
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- Mojo3/5 ★
- Pitchfork6/10
- Q3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Spin4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Bixby Canyon Bridge5:15
- 2I Will Possess Your Heart8:26
- 3No Sunlight2:40
- 4Cath…3:50
- 5Talking Bird3:23
- 6You Can Do Better Than Me1:59
- 7Grapevine Fires4:09
- 8Your New Twin Sized Bed3:06
- 9Long Division3:50
- 10Pity and Fear4:21
- 11The Ice Is Getting Thinner3:45
11 tracks, 45 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Label
- Atlantic
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- ZA
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