Plans
by Death Cab for Cutie
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Aug 30, 2005
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 203 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 168 out of 203
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 203
  3. Negative: 21 out of 203

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  1. NedJ
    May 23, 2006
    3
    What a disappointment. Everything sounds the same... oooh, that's some heavy piano noodling...zzzzz. Yes, Crooked Teeth and Soul Meets Body are good, but this is one overrated band and a mediocre album.
  2. JebJ
    Sep 2, 2005
    0
    Yikes! Kill me out-loud if I enver hear this again. Put it away in the away closet, haha!
  3. KittyV
    Apr 28, 2006
    0
    Ben Gibbard is the most pretentious navel gazing musician I've ever had the misfortune to hear. Will's comment ("listen to the lyrics carefully and you'll see the genius in Gibbard") is true if totally inverted - Gibbard seems completely incapable of writing a line that isn't: a) cliched, b) cheesy, c) mawkish, d) precious, e) some nauseating combo of the above. This Ben Gibbard is the most pretentious navel gazing musician I've ever had the misfortune to hear. Will's comment ("listen to the lyrics carefully and you'll see the genius in Gibbard") is true if totally inverted - Gibbard seems completely incapable of writing a line that isn't: a) cliched, b) cheesy, c) mawkish, d) precious, e) some nauseating combo of the above. This stuff is music for terminal bed-wetters.… Expand
  4. MikeT
    Sep 2, 2005
    3
    This album would have made a splendid EP. Just a major label hiccup, i guess. Overrated like Kanye West Underrated like The New Lows.
  5. aDCFCfan
    Aug 30, 2005
    3
    i listened to this album like 3 weeks ago, and its awful...they've lost their energy. The only good thing about this album is that there are a lot of keyboards and acoustic stuffs. Sadly, the album lacks of emotion/energy/feeling. :(

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#35 Most Discussed Album of 2005
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#42 Most Shared Album of 2005

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 29
  3. Negative: 2 out of 29
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    70
    There is nothing like Transatlaticism's "Sound of Settling" here to offset the never-ending stream of ballads and down-tempo songs.
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  2. musicOMH.com
    80
    This is certainly an album of progression that is likely to win the band plenty of new fans, but it shouldn't alienate their fanbase either.
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  3. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    As albums, Transatlanticism and Give Up seemed greater than their parts, perfectly paced song cycles about love wracked by distance and time's march. Plans addresses similar themes, but without the same narrative glue or shape.
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