GIVE UP

• Artist : POSTAL SERVICE
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0098787059526
• Label : Sub Pop
• Manufacturer : Sub Pop
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.50 inches (Height) x 5.90 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.20 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Sub Pop
• Release Date : 2009-08-31
• SKU : UB000089CJI
• Studio : Sub Pop
• UPC : 098787059526

In every sense of the word Give Up, the debut album from American Electro beatniks the Postal Service is a remarkable record. Born of a chance meeting between Ben Gibbard, singer of Seattle indie-rockers Death Cab for Cutie and LA resident and Dntel lynch-pin Jimmy Tamborello, and written and recorded by post--hence the name the Postal Service--it's an inspired, if unlikely, marriage of lo-fi innocence and hi-tech beauty. Gibbard's voice is filled with the insecure questioning normally restricted to recently dumped singers in emo bands. Tamborello's clicks, bleeps, analogue murmurs and eerie scraps are the stuff of inaccessible bedroom electronica. Together though, they find a sensual middle ground where stories of jilted lovers and fragile desires softly prick the emotions on a tidal wave of otherworldly synthetic sounds. "The District Sleeps Alone", with its tripping beats, bittersweet computer strings and tragically uplifting hook is melancholy at its most tender. "Sleeping In" is a joyously sunny daydream; a naïve vision of how good the world could be. And everything else falls somewhere between the two--equal parts heartbreak and hope, to form a strange and wonderful dimension where electro-pop has a soul. --Dan Gennoe

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
  • 2: Such Great Heights
  • 3: Sleeping In
  • 4: Nothing Better
  • 5: Recycled Air
  • 6: Clark Gable
  • 7: We Will Become Silhouettes
  • 8: This Place Is A Prison
  • 9: Brand New Colony
  • 10: Natural Anthem

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