- indie rock, rock
- 39 min
- 10 tracks
- Barsuk Records
The Photo Album is the third studio album by American indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released October 9, 2001 on Barsuk Records. Produced by band member Chris Walla, it is the band's only full-length album to feature drummer Michael Schorr.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 75/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Alternative Press8/10
- The Austin Chronicle3/5 ★
- The Boston Phoenix3/4 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork7.1/10
- Q3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4.5/5 ★
- Spin7/10
- Under the Radar8/10
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Tracks
- 1Steadier Footing1:47
- 2A Movie Script Ending4:19
- 3We Laugh Indoors4:58
- 4Information Travels Faster4:03
- 5Why You'd Want to Live Here4:45
- 6Blacking Out the Friction3:27
- 7I Was a Kaleidoscope2:50
- 8Styrofoam Plates5:24
- 9Coney Island2:40
- 10Debate Exposes Doubt4:37
10 tracks, 39 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Label
- Barsuk Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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