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Generally favorable reviews- based on 64 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 64
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Mixed: 9 out of 64
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Negative: 4 out of 64
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Aug 19, 2012
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Jun 2, 2011
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Jun 9, 2011A little better than Narrow Stairs; nowhere near as incredible as "Plans" ore "Transatlanticism" Has a better second half than a first. Sycamore, Dancing, Doors and Tourist are must-haves.
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Jun 30, 2011After Narrow Stairs, I was a tad worried, but only for about a minute. You could call it a return to form, but I think it should be noted it's change in direction. The band stated their main inspiration for this record was Brian Eno's Another Green World, which is noticed in the landscape and rhythm of the songs. Each song has it's place and there are no duds. Great for driving down the highway.
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Aug 16, 2011
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Oct 23, 2011This is just the best songwriting Ben Gibbard has ever done, gorgeously produced and performed. Only someone attached to his previous darker themes could fault this lighter and more creative direction that "Death Cab" has taken.
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Jun 2, 2011This album is officially one of my favorite albums of the year and it is easily the best album death cab has put out since Trans. This writing is spot on, the instrumentation is crisp and Ben Gibbard's voice shines. This is a big step in the right direction after taking a couple steps backwards with narrow stairs. I highly recommend this album.
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Jun 4, 2011
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Jun 5, 2011
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Jun 4, 2011My number one fear was that this would be the worst Death Cab for Cutie album of their career. That fear was not realized this time around. If anything, it's one of their better albums. It doesn't quite match Transatlanticism or We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes greatness, however it is a remarkable record. It is grand, lush, and chalked full of some of the group's best material.
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Jun 2, 2011I'm sad that this new album by Death Cab have such a low scoreâ
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Jun 3, 2011
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Oct 31, 2011
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Dec 15, 2012Codes and Keys is good it's just not as unique of a sound as Death Cab for Cutie has had on other albums. It's songs definitely run together. It's just not as good as the earlier albums. It's nice to listen to but every time I listen to it I think of how much better Transatlanticism, Plans and Narrow Stairs were.
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Sep 7, 2018
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Aug 28, 2018
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Nov 29, 2011Keys and Codes, which inverts the title of Death Cab's last record, feels slapped together, which is disappointing when you consider the array of talent present.
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Jun 29, 2011Past Death Cab albums have found frontman Ben Gibbard penning youthful lyrics about the wariness and mystery of love, but now, the singer -- who recently married actress/musician Zooey Deschanel -- seems to finally be at peace with his strange, wonderful self.
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Jun 17, 2011Codes and Keys is littered with PDA for Gibbard's new celebrity wife Zooey Deschanel, but this especially garish monument to his muse would have been better placed on one of her She & Him album-wafers.