By Edward Paik To get you in the mood for some Death Cab for Cutie - since the group does play the Greek in Berkeley tonight - All Shook Down caught up with the band's Nick Harmer (bassist) and Ben Gibbard (vocalist, guitarist) in separate interviews to talk about their latest album, Narrow Stairs , their changing soundscape and the future... Rolling Stone calls Narrow Stairs “as dark as anything [your] band has made.” Would you agree? Nick Harmer: I’d say that it’s dark. I wouldn’t call it our darkest album made, but there are those who say it’s dark. So what were some of the reactions you’ve heard or read? Harmer: It’s pretty good reactions and kind of all over the place. For the most part it was good but there’s always someone or something that they’re not going to like. But I think at the end of the day that’s part of, you know, making music and putting it out into the world. I think it’s far more inspiring to make music in a band that some people will like and some people really don’t than it is to make something that a) something everyone really likes or b) everyone doesn’t like and even worse something that no one cares about. So I think we’re all really proud of our work some people don’t like it but were cool with it. ...
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By Edward Paik To get you in the mood for some Death Cab for Cutie - since the group does play the Greek in Berkeley tonight - All Shook Down caught up with the band's Nick Harmer (bassist) and Ben Gibbard (vocalist, guitarist) in separate interviews to talk about their latest album, Narrow Stairs , their changing soundscape and the future... Rolling Stone calls Narrow Stairs “as dark as anything [your] band has made.” Would you agree? Nick Harmer: I’d say that it’s dark. I wouldn’t call it our darkest album made, but there are those who say it’s dark. So what were some of the reactions you’ve heard or read? Harmer: It’s pretty good reactions and kind of all over the place. For the most part it was good but there’s always someone or something that they’re not going to like. But I think at the end of the day that’s part of, you know, making music and putting it out into the world. I think it’s far more inspiring to make music in a band that some people will like and some people really don’t than it is to make something that a) something everyone really likes or b) everyone doesn’t like and even worse something that no one cares about. So I think we’re all really proud of our work some people don’t like it but were cool with it. ...