Released: 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative
Quality: Lossless
Codec: FLAC

Props to Zooey Deschanel for finally cheering Ben Gibbard up. On Narrow Stairs, the Death Cab frontman sang songs like You Could Do Better Than Me and Pity and Fear, filling the album with the sort of articulate, hyper-literate gloominess you might expect from a depressed poetry major. Codes and Keys, released three years after Narrow Stairs and two years after his marriage to Deschanel, paints a brighter picture. Gone are the breakup ballads, the odes to lost love, the down-in-the-dumps sentiment that filled most of Death Cabs earlier work. Instead, the album offers up a handful of odes to the sunny side of life.

Tracks: 

 1. Home Is a Fire
 2. Codes and Keys
 3. Some Boys
 4. Doors Unlocked and Open
 5. You Are a Tourist
 6. Unobstructed Views
 7. Monday Morning
 8. Portable Television
 9. Underneath the Sycamore
 10. St. Peters Cathedral
11. Stay Young, Go Dancing