Death Cab for Cutie: Plans (Atlantic/Warner import) 

It's taken over 14 years for the indie music scene to dream big again and many are starting to draw parallels between Death Cab For Cutie’s major label debut Plans and REM’s Out of Time (the album that broke “alternative” into the mainstream). Coincidence, sugar-coated hype or whatever your church pastor warned, Washington-born, Seattle-based indie pop outfit Death Cab For Cutie (DCFC) is closest the indie scene has come again to sparking a second coming. And DCFC isn’t a bad choice for the job.