The Postal Service seemed like a fitting name for the combined efforts of producer Dntel aka Jimmy Tamborello, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard. It was a nod to the snail mail process with which they shipped tracks back and forth, and was arrived at just as loosely and randomly as the music they were having so much fun making.
Their one and only album, aptly named Give Up, was a mix of lo-fi strains of ’indietronica’ which immediately won fans tired of the bright and brash front-page rockers championed by the music machine of the day. Jimmy, toiling his bedroom studio in LA, whipped up the tracks, imagining the vocals his long-distance writing partner might add.
