Claude says:Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer started playing together in Bellingham, Washington in the late '90s, refining a melodic indie rock sound that brought them into the mainstream by the mid-2000s with albums like Transatlanticism and Plans. Forbidden Love collects early acoustic material — "405 (acoustic)" and "Photobooth" show the spare, introspective side of their songwriting before the full-band arrangements took over. You gave it a single play in 2009 and one more two years later, but it never quite stuck.