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Postal Service - Give Up Audio CD

A fair review of the Postal Service "Give Up" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Postal Service reviews here, or go back to the Postal Service tabs.

Postal Service Band: Postal Service
Title: Give Up
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: 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: Place Is A Prison 9: Brand New Colony 10: Natural Anthem 11: There's Never Enough Time (Bonus Track)

Simply, no Complexly Amazing
That's because this music in unlike anything you've heard before. "Give Up" by the Postal Service is one of those albums you would never sit down and describe as the the kind of music that you prefer to listen to.

I came across this CD when a friend recommended it to me based on my interest in Death Cab for Cutie. I am thankful I have that friend.

The songs are expertly crafted. The arrangements are complex but accessible. The lyrics are heartfelt and sincere. Overall it's just a damn good CD.

My favorites are "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," "Nothing Better," and "Recycled Air" (a gem of a tune, with a subject so simple, yet the song seems so deep).

I would recommend this to anyone who like's good, solid, trance-like/trance-enducing music that is brimming with atmosphere, style, substance, and above all quality.

You won't be disappointed.


The GREATEST music EVER!!
Im telling you this is the best music i EVER heard. Ok now listen up here this is one group u should NOT pass up. Why you ask? Ill tell you just that. You know how you listen to a CD and your like I dont like that song skip it then you have to use all that energy to press the skip button. Well guess wut they have so many AWESOME songs on there that you wont want to skip any of them. It is like the first cd where they made all the songs good. There lyrics are what really make it great. They really pull you in and make you think. These are the most thought thru lyrics and they mean somthing. If you havent already gotten this Cd you better go get it now no joke. This is my first review and I felt I really had to tell people about how good they are cuz they deserve to be spread around. It doesnt matter what kinda of music you like The Postal Service is music.


I am thinking it's a sign....
No, not THAT postal service, but the unique band behind one of the best albums of 2003, the indie-electronic "Give Up. The Postal Service had an unusual start. " Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello exchanged tapes through the mail, sculpting the sweet, melancholy trip-hop masterpiece "Give Up".

It starts off on strong footing with the melancholy, angelic-voiced "District Sleeps Alone Tonight" with its solemn organ opener. The second song is even stronger -- the sparkling, upbeat "Such Great Heights," an adoring love song from a guy to his on-the-road girlfriend. "They will see us waving/from such great heights/come down now!/they'll say/but everything looks perfect from far away. . . "

With such a great opener, the rest of the album is almost garuanteed to be lackluster. But Gibbard and Tamborello manage to keep the quality up with the delicate "Sleeping In," ethereal "Nothing Better," and the dreamily majestic "Recycled Air" with its backdrop of string-like synth. "Give Up" ends on a slightly darker note with the dark, grittier "This Place is a Prison" and the fast-paced but strange "Brand New Colony," before finishing off with the magnificently cacophonous "Natural Anthem. "

"Give Up" was originally recorded in a rather weird way, with Gibbard and Tamborello exchanging packages with recorded CDs inside. Not your typical way of making music, and some might have scoffed at this unorthodox method. But it pays off beautifully -- the melodious poppy sound of Postal Service is absolutely intoxicating. It's a perfect mix of beats, clicks, dreamy synth and sweet vocals. Gibbard's clear voice is a little sad, and contemplative, and is backed up in some songs by Jen Wood and Jenny Lewis.

The lyrics are beautiful, romantic and heartfelt ("I am finally seeing/why I was the one worth leaving. . . "), often evoking a slightly otherworldly feeling, not tied in with the world as we know it. It brings up dark cities, flying couples, gaudy apartments and places where things are sad and a little dreamy. The keyboard arrangements are shimmering, guitar riffs are steady and solid, and a cluster of other instruments (organ and horn) surface and vanish seamlessly.

"Give Up" both satisfies a musical hunger and leaves you wanting more. Proving that innovation is NOT dead in the music biz, the Postal Service is a fantastic breath of fresh air. Dreamy, a little depressed, but uplifting and sweet.


Postal Service - Music that should've topped the Boards
This CD is a collaboration of Artists from DNTEL and Death Cab For a Cutie. . and together they created some of the best music this era has seen. If you are a fan of the 80's, emo, or indie or you are open to any kind of good music, one sampling of the album will catapult you into an addiction of these masterfully engineered tracks. The lyrics pull you into the broken heart of a man and the music will keep you coming back for more. The tracks contained in this CD are better than 98% of anything that the Mainstream VJ's and DJ's currently expose you too. Don't pass up this marvelous work of art. Its simply amazing.


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