Hands-down the most influential album of my high school years. I can put more experiences to music from this album than any other. And the stories are almost all too personal to share in a blog post.
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For starters, they used amazing equipment to record it. A friend of mine, Collin Jordan, a mastering engineer in Chicago, said that the vocal mic Ben Gibbard used on this record was probably worth over $10k. Nice.
Second, Death Cab has pioneered the pop-electronic fusion that is so common in music today.
Yes, I will follow you into the dark…
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