Postal Service - Give Up (20th Anniversary) [Blue Metallic Silver Vinyl]

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of 'Give Up', the landmark 2003 album from The Postal Service. The band's only album famously features the singles "Such Great Heights", "We Will Become Silhouettes" and "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"

The Postal Service is a long-distance collaboration between Ben Gibbard (singer/guitarist from Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Jimmy recorded the Beachwood Sparks album Make the Cowboy Robots Cry and also records under the name Dntel). Ben and Jimmy sent music back and forth, between California and Washington, each adding new elements until the record was complete. The result is a sweetly charming, largely electronic album with a warmth not typically associated with the clicks-and-beeps set. As an added bonus, additional vocals on the record are provided by Jen Wood and Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis.

The fact that Give Up unintentionally soundtracked every high school breakup from 2003 to 2007 is a testament to the immediate, undeniable communal aspects of the album: its cotton candy melodies, its unabashed melodrama, its dead-simple lyricism, its romanticized melancholy.

20th Anniversary Edition. BLUE METALLIC SILVER vinyl produced by Sub Pop Records in 2023.