Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

I have just had an experience which i wish that I could somehow convey to others and hopefully have them experience the same. Only once before, I believe that I have had this experience but when you are amidst it and completely aware. The essence of this experience is hearing sonic capability and realizing it for its true beauty and no more. As marvelous as this is, there is no possible way of describing it in words and there is no way to understand it until you have experienced it yourself. But for the sake of remembering this experience, I shall do my best to try to retell my listening. Laying flat on my back with my primary audio source being my computer i was engulfed in the sound of what is Narrow Stairs. Once engulfed, not very much else mattered to me besides what i was hearing. Any distant sounds in my house or even thoughts in my head were gone and I was able to truly appreciate this album for what it is and no more. The opening track "Bixby Canyon Bridge" pulled me into this world which I can only describe as relaxing, comforting and assuring. This track sets the mood for the album with enough ambiance and structure at the same time, creating a perfect balance. An ambient intro which leads into a structured song which eventually dissolves into an ambient and chaotic outro with a structured and melodic vocal line which eases the song out. The following song is the only song which has been publicly released so far and that is "I Will Posses Your Heart" an eight and a half minute masterpiece. I honestly have a hard time finding words to describe this album, for this is something that you really just have to hear. After the beauty of "I Will Possess Your Heart" I fell deeper into this state of relaxation that this album put me in. The songs erased all thought from my head and even kept me from analyzing them, something which i often cant help myself from doing. Consequentially, I slowly and easily came out of this experience like it was a perfect dream. Much like the ones where you don't just wake up but slowly realize that you are awake and are in a very optimistic mindset. When I realized that i was conscious I was spoken to by none other than Ben Gibbard. He told me, "We're not the same dear, as we used to be, the seasons have changed..." and as soon as i heard this I felt his words come out of my mouth, "and so have we". Once I heard this line being completed by myself in unison with Ben Gibbard I realized what I had been going through this whole time. I look up and I was on the last track of the CD, "The Ice Is Getting Thinner". When the song had finished and the album had come to an end, within the next ten minutes as I lay there motionless, these words poured into my brain and I realized the true beauty of this album. A glorious forty four minutes and fifty seconds of a masterpiece and then the after effect it has had on me, which is still hitting me like a semi truck an hour and a half since i begun the first track.