Death Cab for Cutie [paging kittensounds]

In a spirit of exchange of ideas, Benedict and his teacher did a sort of musical exchange. Ronan listened to some Clutch and he played us some Death Cab for Cutie. I like them well enough, but something's bothering me - who do they remind me of?

While we're on the musical theme

I've been trying to Audioscrobbler again, something I havne't done sinvce before the wedding, and it's not really working. I don't have any buttons. No 'I like this/I hate this/I'm not in the mood' no pause, nothing. It doesn't help that the wireless is dodgy so it keeps cutting out anyway. What can I do?

I'm running Edubuntu, in case that helps.

At least the laptop has a left speaker and a right speaker, unlike anything else in the house.