Death Cab For Cutie - No Sunlight

The third single from Death Cab For Cutie’s critically acclaimed and very different sixth album ‘Narrow Stairs’, ‘No Sunlight’ is, regardless of its title, a bright and warm tune. Soaring guitar, twinkling keyboard, a rhythmic urgency and Gibbards deliciously naive voice make it pretty, and pretty catchy. Laid back, but retaining Death Cabs classic wistful resonance, this is yet again a successful soundtrack for indie odd balls and hopeless romantics.

Musically this song may be sweet but thematically it’s rather darker stating the disillusionment of adulthood and the evaporation of idealism, “with every year that came to pass, more clouds appeared til the sky went black”. Don’t let the lyrical gloom put you off as the overall sound is up beat and optimistic, appropriately, for singles this strong could well usher in a new fan base for Death Cab.