(This Is) The Dream Of Jimmy and Ben: 10 years of The Postal Service
On February 19th 2003, a band called The Postal Service released an album called Give Up. It was the product of a curious union between vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and the producer Jimmy Tamborello, known as Dntel. The pair had been exchan
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I did not know, quality investigative journalism there :)
Amusingly (or not), the main reason I found out about this record was due to being a huge fan of Jen Wood, she'd been in Tattle Tale who were an Olympia band that had links with Kill Rock Stars and Yoyo and her first album was wondefully melancholy. I searched her on the internet to see what she'd been up to at that time and it had just some out, I was still a bit gutted that she didn't tour with them (or less gutted as I didn't get to see them anyway! Sean Fortuna Pop gave the last tickets for their Spitz show to the band Fosca about five mins before I rushed over from work, they hated them and I've been grudgeful ever since :D Jen's latest album is trippy and wonderful, very worth checking out.
10 years of The Postal Service...
one album, a handful of singles from said album, then an 8-year hiatus.
I honestly wouldn't trade that version of things for anything. That album's staying power has been extraordinary, and I'm not going to sniffle at the 45 perfect minutes we got.
A funny thing:
Way back when, I burned a friend of mine a copy of Give Up, and included (This Is) The Dream of Evan & Chan, plus the couple of b-sides from the singles. I labeled it with the same name you've used for this article. It's obviously not a stretch, but still.
Incredible article, regardless. Listening to the album again, it hasn't aged a bit. I love that about it.