"If you consider yourself a Death Cab fan and have yet to hear Something About Airplanes, consider this deluxe reissue a mandatory purchase. Not only does it offer an invaluable bit of context within which to frame the rest of the band’s output, it also stands on its own as an excellent album from the last decade’s defining indie pop act."  (PopMatters)

"A strange and beautiful thing happens on this reissue's bonus live disc. During the first song of their maiden Seattle show, in 1998, Death Cab play "Your Bruise" with the melancholy precision that later became their hallmark. On the lovely, cello-adorned "Bend to Squares," the band creeps along with deliberation, like children trying not to leave footprints in icy snow."  (Rolling Stone)

"Something About Airplanes, confirms what fans have claimed (often rabidly) since “Soul Meets Body” got huge a couple years ago: Death Cab has been a killer band from the get-go. Vocalist Ben Gibbard’s introspective, hyper-literate lyrics on “Champagne From a Paper Cup” and “Amputations” are good enough to appease anti-emo elitists and still make girls swoon for the awkward, bespectacled singer."  (Salt Lake City Weekly)

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