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Transatlanticism

by Death Cab For Cutie

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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 3.2416 Transatlanticism is ranked overall as 3.2416 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.2066 Transatlanticism has an avg. critic score of 3.2066 out of 4 stars

Transatlanticism Album Reviews

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Excellent
4
 
(13)
Very Good
3
 
(13)
Good
2
 
(3)
Fair
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Poor
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(3)

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It's the group's maturity as musicians as well as songwriters that make Transatlanticism such a decadently good listen from start to finish. ...more
Rolling Stone
Transatlanticism should be overwrought -- it's an album about young men enduring lost love in an ocean of memory; instead, it feels like a conversation with an old friend. ...more
Rolling Stone
Transatlanticism, Death Cab for Cutie's fourth album, presents a polished version of the heartstring-tugging formula that has earned the Washington state quartet its cultish following: melodic, melancholy songs about feeling both smart and confused, ...more
Stylus Magazine
Has it really been more than two years since the last Death Cab For Cutie album? You wouldn't know it with Ben Gibbard's name appearing on no less than seven releases since then. ...more
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
A lush, impeccably produced, musically adventurous, emotionally resonant examination of the way relationships are both strengthened and damaged by distance, the album surpasses Gibbard's other career highpoints, which is really saying something....read the complete review at The Onion (A.V. Club)
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Nude As The News
There is no doubt in my mind -- and in this I seem to have a lot of company -- that Transatlanticism is Death Cab For Cutie's best album so far....read the complete review at Nude As The News
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ShakingThrough.net
Despite utilizing the same basic indie-pop template utilized to agreeable effect on its previous three albums, Death Cab for Cutie lays an outright goose egg with the bland, tepid Transatlanticism....read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net
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The A.V. Club
If Death Cab For Cutie singer-songwriter Ben Gibbard had spent 2003 sticking purely to side projects, he'd still be having a great year. The Postal Service's Give Up , his warmly winning electronic collaboration with Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello, overcame...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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