The Postal Service - Give Up
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Artist: The Postal ServiceEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
- Such Great Heights
- Sleeping In
- Nothing Better
- Recycled Air
- Clark Gable
- We Will Become Silhouettes
- This Place Is a Prison
- Brand New Colony
- Natural Anthem
Free Music Notes for Give Up
Free Music Review: Infectious, amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
I came to this album with fresh ears, meaning I had never heard Death Cab For Cutie, or Dntel. In fact, I'd never heard anything by either of them. I happened to stumble upon this one day on Pandora.
After reading all the rave reviews and hearing a few samples I bought the album.
The first time I listened I thought "Ehh, it's okay. Not sure what all the hype is about."
Then I found the songs stuck in my head. So I listened again.. and again.. and, well now I am listening to this album every single day.
It is quite simply an intelligent, innovative, original and flat out fun album.
Highlights include "We Will Become Silhouettes" and "Nothing Better" and "Brand New Colony". The atari-like bass in "Nothing Better" is sort of weird and almost annoying at first but like the rest of the album it works its way into your brain and eventually you end up loving the way it meshes so perfectly with Ben's voice.
The weakest tracks are "This Place Is A Prison" and "Sleeping In". The former is just boring, the latter would be OK but the lyrics are a little pretentious.
Give Up Poster
Give Up, the debut release by this indie supergroup composed of Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel, is a smart, quaint, and often transcendent little pop record. The roots of the album lie in "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan," a woozy, gorgeous song recorded for the rad 2001 Dntel album Life Is Full of Possibilities. With Jimmy in L.A. and Ben in Seattle, the two simply mailed tracks back and forth, collaborating via (you guessed it) the United States Post Office. Lyrically it's far breezier and happier (though not too happy) than anything Gibbard had written up to this point for Death Cab. The music is an elastic, very smart update of synth-pop and the melodies crystal clear, while the backing vocals courtesy of Jen Wood and Jenny Lewis are spartan and pretty. The songs stick in your head for days at a time. Forget the tags that have been thrown up against this music--Poptronica? New new new order? Please just enjoy this album. It just might be a classic--but of what exactly, we're not quite sure. --Mike McGonigalThe 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. Sub Pop. 2003.
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