"Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for 'Such Great Heights' made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization" - Ben Gibbard
The Postal Service is an indie electro-pop band, which started life as a side project for singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. Several songs on their first LP, Give Up, feature guest vocals from Jenny Lewis, the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, a band which was once on the same label as Death Cab (Barsuk Records) and vocals from Jen Wood, an indie rock solo artist. Chris Walla recorded some of the songs and played the piano on Nothing Better.
The way in which the group combines electronic backing tracks with poppy hooks is somewhat reminiscent of 1980s new wave music. The group formed after Gibbard contributed vocals for a song on Dntel's album Life Is Full of Possibilities called (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan. This song sparked an EP of remixes by other artists, such as Lali Puna, The Flaming Lips, Safety Scissors, Barbara Morgenstern and Superpitcher and was so well received that the two artists decided that further collaboration was in order. (read more)
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that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
that God himself did make
us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay
Such Great Heights Lyrics
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- Postal Service's official website
- Official site with biography, discography, contact information, tour dates, photos, press, merchandise, and links.
- Sub Pop Records page for Postal Service
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- The Postal Service at Wikipedia
- Encyclopedia article including the history of the band, brief biographies of members and a discography.
- The Postal Service at MySpace
- MySpace music profile for The Postal Service with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.
- Postal Service at Last.fm
- Listen to The Postal Service. Tagged as: indie, electronic, indie pop.
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- Ultimate Comics Avengers # 3 Written by Mark Millar Art by Carlos Pachecho & Justin Ponsor Published by Marvel Comics It opens in Afghanistan, where a band of machine gun toting warlords prepare the two surviving American officers they've ... And then there's a whole page with the Postal Service Statement of Ownership--that legal thing where they tell you the average number of copies published. (It's 57679, which means that you're about 1000 times more likely to have a ...
- Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software | TorrentFreak
- Thank goodness for technologies like Rapidshare and Megaupload, people can just use their browsers. Or do they also intend to ban Firefox and Opera for their torrent handling features too? Utterly moronic? 13 Sep 18, 2009 at 23:26 by Anonymous .... While we're at it let's also ban the postal service! After all, it can be used to send illegal copied music to people just like P2P clients, AND it actually profts from it, UNLIKE most P2P clients. ...
- Radio Molotov: Paolino Paperino Band - Discografia
- Storica band modenese di punk rock demenziale della quale è raccolta qui l'intera discografia: dall'lp Pislas (1993) alla prima tape La prima Paolino (1988), passando per il mini-lp Fetta (1991) e l'ultimo ep Le bestie feroci del circo ( 1994), ...... lider de The Postal Service. Estamos antes un puñado de canciones que se podrian encuadrar bajo la in... 2 giorni fa. Spettro Danza · 7 Generations, the break up! - This was one of the greatest band of the last years! ...
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