Gallery: Death Cab for Cutie at Brooklyn Paramount

The 20th anniversary of Plans is this year, and Death Cab for Cutie are on the road celebrating its goodness. In their first show at the Brooklyn Paramount, they concocted a 22-song set spanning all of their seminal fifth album before gliding into a greatest hits showcase. Of course, “Soul Meets Body” and “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” have been on most of the band’s setlists for two decades, but “What Sarah Said” and “Different Names for the Same Thing” stood shoulder to shoulder with the band’s very best. And to careen into an encore of “I Don’t Know How I Survive,” “Doors Unlocked and Open,” and “Bixby Canyon Bridge” after rattling off “I Will Possess Your Heart,” “You Are a Tourist,” and “Cath…,” well, that’s the type of choice that makes a band like Death Cab for Cutie so good.

Last year, in his recap of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service’s show in Atlanta, Paste EIC Josh Jackson wrote, “This was the music of every late-night drive at a time when we were just getting Paste off the ground. I was older than the typical Death Cab for Cutie fan at 31, a father of young kids and husband to a wife who was getting tired of my absence. I’d poured so much of my energy—and increasingly my identity—into this new venture, and as much as I was basking in the response it had gotten, I was starting to sense that more important things were slipping away. When the band played [Transatlanticism], and Gibbard began pleading, over and over, ‘I need you so much closer,’ I was reminded again, by one of rock’s truest romantics, just who in my life has brought me the most joy, and felt immense gratitude. Music doesn’t have to make you dance to make you feel, and Death Cab had us all in our feels.”

Our good pal Emilio Herce was on the scene at Brooklyn Paramount capturing the action. Check out his gallery below: