Narrow Stairs

At a loss for blog ideas, I decided to write about my most recent obsession, the new Death Cab for Cutie CD, Narrow Stairs. It. Is. Beautiful.
Yes Alice, Coco told me that she didn't enjoy it as much as the others, and I remember a half-hearted agreement from me, but that was a day after it came out. Now, it has been... I want to say, like a month? And my opinion has very much changed. Every single track is perfect, including the whopping eight-minute-long, I will Possess Your Heart. I have a couple of their other CDs.. Plans, The Photo Album, We have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, You can Play these Songs With Chords and Transatlanticism. My favorite before was Plans... It has very abruptly changed. Before getting Narrow Stairs at Record Archive, (three cheers for supporting local music stores!!!), I figured that I probably wouldn't like it as much as Plans because of my tendency to not really listen to new CDs because I am so busy listening to the old. (Probably one of the reasons why I prefer Plans and Transatlanticism to We have the facts and We're Voting Yes, ect.) I was quite wrong. I listened to it a lot and I have very much fallen in love with the beats, lyrics and tunes of each carefully crafted song. You could say that they have successfully possessed my heart.. o ho ho.. That was silly.
So basically, from the first soothing notes of Bixby Canyon Bridge, to the last seconds of silence in The Ice Was Getting Thinner, so awesome following Pity and Fear's abrupt end, Narrow Stairs very possibly is my favorite album of all time... At least, For today it will be.. Last night I splurged at Barnes and Noble and got all three Twilight Books (Eclipse was special edition and came with a poster, t-shirt iron-ons and the first chapter of Breaking Dawn.) and a new The Academy Is... Cd, so we'll see how that goes.......
Happy Faja's Day, younguns' (ever notice how that word looks like yogurt? just wondering...)