CONCERT REVIEW: Death Cab for Cutie/The Lonely Forest @ The Trocadero 6/4

POSTED: Monday, June 6, 2011, 9:00 AM

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Seldom do middle-agers and teenagers choose to spend a Saturday night together. But they all made peace and found common ground at The Troc when Death Cab for Cutie came to town on their intimate Codes and Keys tour. Death Cab’s new album finds the veteran artists grappling with the concept of home and belonging, which is exactly what the audience found with them at the sold out show at The Trocadero.

From the first sight of a Flyers jersey on opening band The Lonely Forest’s John Van Deusen to the final chords of Transatlanticism, it was a packed love fest. Songs such as “Turn Off This Song and Go Outside” and “We Sing in Time” off of The Lonely Forest’s Arrows (produced by Death Cab’s Chris Walla) hit the mark with a sound and energy akin to those of the headlining band, making the audience feel right at home early on.

Punctuating Death Cab’s performance of several older, well-loved songs such as “Cath…,” “A Movie Script Ending,” “Photobooth,” “I Will Possess Your Heart,” Soul Meets Body” and “Pictures in an Exhibition” were a variety of new, solid pop rock selections. Songs like “Home is a Fire,” “You Are a Tourist” and “Stay Young, Go Dancing” had us conclude that home really has nothing to do with buildings or places and everything to do with yourself and the people around you — even the girl next to you manically rocking out and jabbing you with her elbow.

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