{"id":9826,"date":"2013-05-08T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:24:01","slug":"the-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"THE POSTAL SERVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The-Postal-Service-M-Review-No26\"THE POSTAL SERVICE<\/h1>\n

Give Up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

[Sub Pop]<\/p>\n

The two biggest sellers in Sub Pop\u2019s history reveal some of the key differences between the generation that raged along with grunge in the early \u201990s and the one that took solace in emo in the early \u201900s. Whereas Nirvana\u2019s Bleach<\/i>, which dropped in 1989 but didn\u2019t really hit until a few years later, is caustic and vague\u2014notable less for what Kurt Cobain said than for how forcefully he said it\u2014the Postal Service\u2019s Give Up<\/i> is clean, clever and emotionally forthright. For young folks reared on the internet, its oversharing set to electro-pop offered relief for the queasiness of reaching adulthood.<\/p>\n

Ten years on, Give Up<\/i>\u2014remastered and expanded here onto two discs, complete with remixes, B-sides and two new tunes\u2014doesn\u2019t sound dated, but it is a sign of its times. Postal Service takes its name from the snail-mail manner in which Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and electronic musician Jimmy Tamborello exchanged the snippets of music that became these songs. Nowadays, they\u2019d use email, and the idea of a well-known rocker doing synth-pop wouldn\u2019t strike anyone as weird. What remains unusual is the quality of the songs. Playing on the nervous excitement of Tamborello\u2019s blips and beats, Gibbard remains hopeful in the face of fading youth, romantic conundrums, political anxieties and, as he sings in one particularly memorable line, the indignities of living in \u201ca gaudy apartment complex.\u201d New songs \u201cTurn Around\u201d and \u201cA Tattered Line of String\u201d continue in the same vein, though the latter\u2019s brash beat and frazzled lyrics suggest the young romantics of \u201cSuch Great Heights\u201d are slightly older\u2014and no closer to figuring things out. \u2013Kenneth Patridge<\/p>\n

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THE POSTAL SERVICE Give Up: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition\u00a0 [Sub Pop] The two biggest sellers in Sub Pop\u2019s history reveal some of the key differences between the generation that raged along with grunge in the early \u201990s and the one that took solace in emo in the early \u201900s. Whereas Nirvana\u2019s Bleach, which dropped in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6532,6467,531,6531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}