Death Cab For Cutie // Codes & Keys // as interpreted by RGBeats
So it turns out that Death Cab For Cutie love referencing cityscapes.
I’m finding it best to do these paintings to things that are new to me or I haven’t yet heard and am excited to listen to. The painting to the left started out as a motorway with a bright red car motoring through it. That’s because I didn’t really know where to start until I got a rather unimaginiative vision from a lyric early on – “Noise – cars on the freeway” [as heard in 'Home is a Fire'].
The boy himself came out of ‘Some Boys’ – much stronger lyrically. A really great song [listen below].
I have a tendency to bring something new with every new track so it’s inevitable that the starting point is unrecognisable by the time all seven other tracks have gotten a spin. There was a door knob in what is now the sky at one stage too.
Anyway, the result is very much so a cityscape, with a boy singing his little heart out with a lyric taken from that first track – “Nothing is the same”. It’s not my favourite lyric at all from the album. In fact, it kind of annoys me. Don’t feed me a standard phrase. If nothing is the same, I want to know what’s changed since yesterday.
Cheers.
