Cutie ‘Opens’ new ‘Door’
By Alex Kuskowski | Apr. 16, 2009Released nearly a year after their critically acclaimed Narrow Stairs and made up of songs recorded during the same sessions, Death Cab for Cutie's newest EP, The Open Door, certainly differentiates itself from their last release. It's easy to see why the band didn't include these five far more upbeat songs on the depressing Narrow Stairs. For one thing, these songs wouldn't have fit the darker mood of the album. For another, it satisfies the unending, if somewhat masochistic, craving Death Cab for Cutie fans have for the melancholy and melodic styling of Ben Gibbard.








