Give Up
 | Sub Pop, 2003, Audio CD Customer Rating: 440 reviews Recommend |
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The collaboration between Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello is an album of breezy electronic pop that updates classic 80s synth-pop with contemporary beats. The line-up also features Jenny Lewis from the band Rilo Kiley. Sub Pop. 2003.
Give Up, the debut release by this indie supergroup composed of Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel, is a smart, quaint, and often transcendent little pop record. The roots of the album lie in "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan," a woozy, gorgeous song recorded for the rad 2001 Dntel album Life Is Full of Possibilities. With Jimmy in L.A. and Ben in Seattle, the two simply mailed tracks back and forth, collaborating via (you guessed it) the United States Post Office. Lyrically it’s far breezier and happier (though not too happy) than anything Gibbard had written up to this point for Death Cab. The music is an elastic, very smart update of synth-pop and the melodies crystal clear, while the backing vocals courtesy of Jen Wood and Jenny Lewis are spartan and pretty. The songs stick in your head for days at a time. Forget the tags that have been thrown up against this music — Poptronica? New new new order? Please just enjoy this album. It just might be a classic — but of what exactly, we’re not quite sure. — Mike McGonigal
- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
- Such Great Heights
- Sleeping In
- Nothing Better
- Recycled Air
- Clark Gable
- We Will Become Silhouettes
- This Place Is a Prison
- Brand New Colony
- Natural Anthem
Title: Give Up
Sales Rank: 2846 in Music
Artist: The Postal Service
Label: Sub Pop, 2003-02-18, Audio CD, 1 Disc
Item Dimensions: 0.23 pounds
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches, 0.15 pounds
- I totally dig.
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- Fantastic album
- Great album, great price, lots of extra's! Poster art, EXTRA LARGE album booklet, and a second disc of remixed singles! More reviews
- The UPS commercial song
- I have had the CD for nearly five years and liked the originality of the disc but I also knew that I would not be interested in repeating the sound of subsequent releases, often a problem for bands with a very unique sound.
Kind of ironic that the UPS commercial uses a song(Such Great Heights) by a band called "The Postal Service". I like… More reviews
- original
- really enjoyed this album when it came out and still enjoy it to this day. "the district sleeps tonight" is one of the better tracks. of course "great heights" is probably the most popular single off the album. More reviews
- Fresh, Pleasant, Unremarkable
- "Give Up" was something I found as I was listening to my ultra-mellow station on Pandora. The CD delivers exactly what I expected. Mellow, soothing, electronic sounds with exceedingly pleasant vocals, and steady, move-into-the-background kind of beat. It is a nice, relaxing CD.
What I didn't expect was stellar lyrics. Ben Gibbard's poetic words are incredibly thoughtful, fluent and easy to understand while… More reviews
