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  • #2
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    Damn right. I wouldn't say thats one of their best songs, but its pretty damn good. Definately worth a listen imo. I got their albums, had to order it in cos it wasn't in stock when i went to get it. Worth it though.


  • #3
    polarbelly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭polarbelly


    district sleeps alone tonight has to be my favourite song of theirs, sooo fúcking amazing.


  • #4
    tibor
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭tibor


    If you're into the postal service be sure to check out DNTEL's Life Is Full of Possibilities - beautiful moody electronic music from the guy behind the clicks and buzzes of the postal service. It includes his first collaboration with Ben Gibbard - The Dream of Evan and Chan, which trumps anything on Give Up imo.

    Some mp3s - http://www.epitonic.com/artists/dntel.html


  • #5
    voxpop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    the singer sounds a bit like the thrills (or what i remember the thrills sounding like -its been a while)


  • #6
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Death Cab For Cutie tbh.

    Also Iron And Wine did the original version of "Such Great Heights", worth a listen. And The Shins do a cover of "We Become Sillouettes".


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  • #7
    voxpop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    Death Cab For Cutie have the same lead singer ;)


  • #8
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    tibor wrote:
    - The Dream of Evan and Chan, which trumps anything on Give Up imo.

    no it doesn't it's a good song but not anywhere near a string og songs on give.


    yea i must agree the lead singer sounds rrrrreeeeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyy like death cab....right on


  • #9
    tibor
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭tibor


    Jimeatsmenu wrote:
    Also Iron And Wine did the original version of "Such Great Heights"

    Nope. This was a cover done for the Garden State Soundtrack.


  • #10
    tibor
    Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭tibor


    lordgoat wrote:
    tibor wrote:
    - The Dream of Evan and Chan, which trumps anything on Give Up imo.

    No it doesn't - it's a good song but not anywhere near as strong as the songs on give up.
    (typOs guessed.)

    It's not as immediate/hooky and the melodies aren't as poppy but it's got a longer lifespan, a real grower imo.


  • #11
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    Angry_Penguin wrote:
    Death Cab For Cutie have the same lead singer ;)
    Really? I never knew that, of course, that'd explain why i thought their lead singers both sounded similar-ish. As it happens, i like both of em. Damn good if ya ask me.


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  • #12
    Tyrrial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    the guy's name is Ben Gibberd and as well as being the lead singer of both the postal sevice AND death cab for cutie he's also in another band called All time quater back. not sure if their still going. but they did in fact exist


  • #13
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    tibor wrote:
    (typOs guessed.)

    It's not as immediate/hooky and the melodies aren't as poppy but it's got a longer lifespan, a real grower imo.

    typos correct : i agree that it's not as poppy, but when i compare it this pace is a prison or sleeping in, or clarke gable even, i just think it's there...


    not sure if it was posted but Such Great Heights is not an Iron and Wine song, that was a cover for a good film with natalir portman in it, who is a fox


  • #14
    Scratch Acid
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭Scratch Acid


    tibor wrote:
    his first collaboration with Ben Gibbard - The Dream of Evan and Chan, which trumps anything on Give Up imo.

    Indeed. Beautiful song.


  • #15
    PiE
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    I use "Give Up" to help me fall asleep every night.

    I mean that in a good way.


  • #16
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    yeah, such great heights is an amazing song to fall asleep drunk too


  • #17
    Dallas Salmon Coroner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Dallas Salmon Coroner


    Aye, they're v good, and the reason they're called that is because DCFC's singer writes songs with the other guy by mail! How innovative!


  • #18
    legofsalmon
    Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭legofsalmon


    I did my radio promo on the Postal Service... :D

    Like a indie-tronic supergroup with the best parts of Death Cab, Dntel, Rilo Kiley and the better taddle-tailer ... It has to be good!!! :D

    The Dream of Evan and Chan is really great, as is Kimmy Tambarello's older stuff if you like the beats in "Give up". The only quarm I have is that I'm a Death Cab fan and Gibbard is using up some really great lyrical work that could go towards Death Cab, but as long as he produces still for Death Cab tis cool.

    Also Iron and Wine's cover of such great heights is almost better than the original, only because I think the beat is a lil too fast in the Postal Service track... feel's like it's racing too much through a really great song, and Gibbard is almost rapping... maybe it's just my turntable spinning too fast... I dunno....


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