My Top 1000 Songs #846: Your Heart Is An Empty Room

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

I vacillate on whether Death Cab For Cutie's 2005 LP Plans is my favorite record of theirs; it's situated between the breakthrough of 2003's Transatlanticism and the stunning breadth of 2008's Narrow Stairs, and I could pretty much go with any of those. Plans is certainly loaded up with killer tracks. And while there may be more obvious fan-faves there, I have particular love for "Your Heart Is An Empty Room." Plenty of Ben Gibbard's reliable pathos in there, reveling in both love and isolation, but the song is given a roomy ambience to play within. Those reverberating guitar plinks conjure U2, giving the song a bit of emotional gravitas but without the bombast. Definitely among the Death Cab tracks I find easiest to throw onto a playlist for the uninitiated.

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