| Product Summary | | Label: Subpop Records | | UPC: 00098787059526 | | Release Date: 2/18/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60588595 | | Item#: MCD422 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27308 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. District Sleeps Alone Tonight, The ~ The Postal Service |  | | 2. Such Great Heights ~ The Postal Service | | | 3. Sleeping In ~ The Postal Service | | | 4. Nothing Better ~ The Postal Service | | | 5. Recycled Air ~ The Postal Service | | | 6. Clark Gable ~ The Postal Service | | | 7. We Will Become Silhouettes ~ The Postal Service | | | 8. This Place Is A Prison ~ The Postal Service | | | 9. Brand New Colony ~ The Postal Service | | | 10. Natural Anthem ~ The Postal Service | |
| The collaboration between Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello is an album of breezy electronic pop that updates classic 80s synth-pop with contemporary beats. The line-up also features Jenny Lewis from the band Rilo Kiley.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Postal Service: Ben Gibbard (guitar, electric piano, keyboards, drums); Jimmy Tamborello (programming). | | Additional personnel: Jen Wood (vocals); Chris Walls (piano); Jenny Lewis (background vocals). | | Personnel: Christopher Walla (vocals, guitar, piano, drums); Jen Wood (vocals, background vocals); Jimmy Tamborello (accordion, keyboards, programming); Jenny Lewis (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: The Postal Service. | | Recording information: Hall Of Justice/Dying Songs, Los Angeles/Computerworld, (2002). | | A side project from Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, who formerly played with synth-poppers Figurine but now records as Dntel, the Postal Service creates bedroom electronica with surprising emotional pull on GIVE UP. Ten tracks lyrically convey both a youthful ennui and the nostalgic ache of longing. Tamborello creates a tense sonic space that allows Gibbard's spare yet careful guitar to occasionally chime in and cut the tension. | | While Tamborello's sculpted electronics hearken back to the minimalism of early Depeche Mode, Gibbard's expressively fey vocals and emotional sentiments lend a warm, comforting contrast to the machine-age chilliness (as do the occasional backing vocals from Jen Wood and Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis). This contrast is best illustrated on "We Will Become Silhouettes," when Gibbard sings "[A]nd we become silhouettes when our bodies finally go," only to be followed by a string of optimistic bleeps that are the sonic equivalent of a miniature sky full of twinkling stars. |
Engineer: The Postal Service |
| | Artist Overview | | Separately, synth player Jimmy Tamborello and singer Ben Gibbard were known for their work in electronica and emo, respectively, with Dntel and Death Cab For Cutie. Together, they became a powerful pop duo, combining Tamborello's melodic knowhow and Gibbard's finely crafted lyrics and expressive voice under the name Postal Service. Their debut album, 2003's GIVE UP, was the perfect match of electronic sounds and organic emotions, and became a runaway success. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/18/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : 595 | | Label : Sub Pop Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00098787059526 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/25/03, p.109)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003"Rolling Stone (4/17/03, p.102)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...A cuddly little new wave reverie..." Uncut (6/03, p.92)
- "...Gibbard's refined, feather-light vocals waft delicately over Tamborello's indie electronica, creating a wide-eyed world out of bittersweet love songs and autobiographical daydreams..." CMJ (12/29/03, p.4)
- Ranked #2 in CMJ's "Top 10 of 2003" Mojo (Publisher)
(5/03, p.98)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...GIVE UP is anything but a pop oddity - it's the real thing..." |
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