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| | filter magazine - features |
 | | Gibbard depicts the anguish and frustration of a hospital waiting room, and after the song melodically lulls to a gentle, hushed hum, he attests both mournfully and assuredly that "Love is watching someone die." Gibbard isn't even sure that he fully understands the gravity and force of such a statement. |
 | | When he speaks, Gibbard flounders about at high speed, stepping on his words, stumbling and reiterating, apologizing for going off on a loop, and ultimately sounding exactly like a person who is trying with all his might to believe the things he is saying but just isn't quite there yet. |
 | | A song like "Soul Meets Body," the first single on the new record, a song of dedicated, real love ("And when the darkness takes you/then I hope it takes me too") is hard to miss, or misconstrue. |
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