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The Postal Service is tagged as: indie, electronic, indie pop, alternative, electronica

The Postal Service is an indie electro-pop band based in Seattle, Washington, United States, 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, in 2001, 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.
Its name comes from the manner in which their songs were written, due to the fact that the two of them lived too far away to be able to work together in person. Tamborello would create beats and mail them t...
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Top 10 The Postal Service Songs
Such Great Heights
Nothing Better
Sleeping In
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Brand New Colony
Clark Gable
We Will Become Silhouettes
Recycled Air
This Place Is a Prison
Natural Anthem
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Give Up
2003-04-25: Minneapolis, MN, USA
We Will Become Silhouettes EP
We Will Become Silhouettes
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Such Great Heights
Give Up B-Sides
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Such Great Heights
Such Great Heights 3
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