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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE ON THE PHOTO ALBUM

Wendy Lynch Redfern

In April of 2001, the members of Death Cab for Cutie should have been on top of the world. With two acclaimed full-length releases (1998’s Something About Airplanes and 2000’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes ) and a growing audience, they had reached the status every upstart band dreams of: they had quit their day jobs to focus solely on their music. But it’s never

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