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Give Up

The Postal Service

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Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello produced this smart little electro-pop gem in a curiously old-fashioned way: exchanging beats and vocal samples back and forth through the U.S. mail. Like the technique that produced it, Give Up walks the high wire between authentic and artificial, high-tech and low. Its infernally catchy melodies are tricked out with fuzzy, fast dance beats, soft whirrs and clicks, and video-game tones, but it's Gibbard's melancholy tenor that lends the spark of inspiration (and some much-needed humanity) to the dense production. On highlights such as "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," these opposites come together in a brainy but emotionally satisfying marriage of sense and sentiment. Fans of classic '80s synth-pop like New Order and Depeche Mode may swoon, but the Postal Service are no mere revivalists; in their own post-genre, side-project way, they're rewriting the book.

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Grandiose of All That Is Grand

The Postal Service's album Give up...is an amazingly produced album filled with beautiful piano work and beats that will make you either fall asleep or want to dance a little bit. Beyond all other works of their's this one tops even the most relaxing and yet amazingly written albums you will ever want to think of buying. But thats just me. Obviously this is an electronic album yet it fills all other genre's slightly lyryclly and instrumentally. The synthesized and synchronized beats and keyboard seem to work together in a forgiving relationship that will never end. Drew

Reply to "TOTAL CRAP" by Jersey

Well, Jersey, you seem to have an extremely strong opinion on this album. If you think it's total crap, why are you wasting your time listening to it, and writing reviews about it? Not everybody likes the same music. Some like rap. Some like heavy metal. Some like New Age. That's why there's different genres of music, so there's something for everybody. Did you take the time to notice how much work was put in to this album, noting that Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello had to send eachother tracks over the mail, piecing this album together slowly but surely? Probably not. Did you note that Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello are EXTREMELY accomplished musicians, not only in the Postal Service but in Death Cab for Cutie and DNTEL as well? So you may not loke this genre of music. Not everybody does. Personally, I think that the Postal Service is one of the great music groups of out time, and Ben and Jimmy are so blessed with their musical gifts. So go out their, Jersey, and find music that you like, and don't waste your time putting down others for listenening to music that they find enjoyable.

Melodic Knob-twiddling, Indeed!

I bought this album right after listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Second Helping" and I'm happy to say I wasn't almost not slightly disappointed. Like whiskey bottles and a brand new car, "Give Up" made me think about New Order, Los Angeles, bacon, and New Order. The clever Nintendo beats, the plaintive lament of Ben "Gibby" Gibbard's lyrics, the way they make Lee feel cheated, the mustard stain on my brand new shirt - it's all part of the experience I think is best enjoyed in the dark. Next to a glass of milk.

Biography

Formed: 2001

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '00s

Named for the courier service that allowed them to trade song ideas while living in different locales, the Postal Service were a short-lived supergroup featuring Jimmy Tamborello (leader of the electronica bands Dntel and Figurine) and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Adding to the project's star status were Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and former Tattle Tale member Jen Wood, both of whom contributed backing vocals to the band's mix of bubbling electronica and indie pop. Tamborello and Gibbard first...
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