Claude says:Death Cab's debut arrived in 1998 as a whisper of Pacific Northwest indie rock—all fingerpicked guitars and Ben Gibbard's tender melodic instinct before the band became festival fixtures—and you caught it that August night in 2020, brief enough to feel like a moment of discovery rather than a deep dig, but long enough to let "Bend to Squares" and "Champagne From a Paper Cup" plant themselves in your head.