I've really been enjoying the Death Cab for Cutie album, Transatlaticism. This group has lots of music out there, but I only recently became aware of them because I'm getting older and more out-of-touch with every waking breath. At first listen this group sounds like just another post-emo indie rock band. After about the fourth listen (and the second percocet) I'm finding there's some depth there that goes beyond your standard teenage melodrama. It's always fun to compare new stuff to stuff you already know, so here goes...Jimmy Eat World on tranquilizers? Elliott Smith on amphetamines? (sorry buddy, I miss you) Dashboard Confessional, but much better and much less annoying and repetitive? Oh and I must say, there is a striking similarity between DCFC's "A Lack of Color" and the slow version of Iron and Wine's "Such Great Heights," which appears on the Garden State soundtrack (that Shins song changed my life, btw). However you classify it, it's a very good, mellow pop album that's well produced and has more than one song good enough to be in the next Wes Anderson flick. Perhaps the best part of this album for me is the song "Sound of Settling." For about two or three weeks, it was the song that played if you called my mom's cell phone, and the whole time I thought the lyrics went, "Bop baaaahhhhh, this is the Sound of Several Rings." By the way, do they call those ring tones? You know, when you're the one calling and you hear a song instead of a ring? I thought ring tones are the ones you hear when your phone rings. Anyway...I like DCFC. Maybe you will too.