Good Delivery! (Give Up - The Postal Service)

Member Name: Traveller101

Product:	Give Up - The Postal Service
Date:	01/08/08 (34 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good album

Disadvantages: Some may not like it I guess!

This album is the debut record from Postal Service, which is Death Cab for Cutie vocalist Ben Gibbard, teaming with Figurine, Headset and Dntel producer Jimmy Tamborello.

Postal Service derived their name from the way the songs on this album were produced, which was, suprisingly, via post, they sent the tracks back and forth to eachother through the post, editing and adding vocals along the way.

The album has an overall sound of modern electronic music, mixed with the sound of 80's 'New Wave' genre. Which I kind of expected knowing the artists involved, mainly Tamborello.


The stand out track for me (and most popular single) is "Such Great Heights", clever and on-the-beat vocals from Gibbard over a catchy uptempo track from Tamborello. This single, even though released in 2003, is still played a lot today, and is one of the most popular songs 'scrobbled' from users of website 'Lastfm'

Other stand-out tracks for me are 'The District Sleeps Alone Tonight', 'Sleeping In', 'Clark Gable' and 'We Will Become Silhouettes'.

And fans of Death Cab for Cutie will probably already know about this album, incase you don't give it a listen. If you're a casual music fan, I'd say skip the whole album and go for the 'Such Great Heights' single, it's the most catchy and easy to like track from the album.

"I hope this song will guide you home"

Summary: Death Cab fans won't wan't to miss it.