Give Up by The Postal Service

Pros: A wonderful album combining quirky beats with even quirkier lyrics
Cons: Everything for Gibbard is an ordeal

We live in an ever evolving world, where everyday some new technological advancement arrives on store shelves that make or lives easier and allow us to survive and thrive with less human contact than ever before. Multinational corporations and small ...

Pros: A lot of fun, and great mix of vocals and music
Cons: A little too precious at times

Trying to keep this short.... I could tell tales of working at Wal-Mart and the ensuing lack of identity that offers the retail worker in the U.S. Or talk about the Story of the Year concert I went to, even though it isn't really relevant to this ...

Pros: Plenty of goodness.
Cons: Drops of badness. Pretentious.

Please disregard the text of this review. My views on music have changed in recent months. The Postal Service is the love-child of Dntel's "electronica mastermind" Jimmy Tamborello's and Death Cab for Cutie's frontman Ben Gibbard. It ...

Pros: Ben Gibbard lends vocals with Jimmy Tamborello's Beat Pulse to 10 tracks.
Cons: Aside from one track... I very much enjoy this.

The opening to "Give Up " might as well come across as the start of an eulogy to something/someone that has died. More exploring the fact that something died rather than "someone ", possibly a heartbreak deserving a full length as release or spite...

Pros: Blending of Emo and Electronica, lyrics, everything about this album is just addictive.
Cons: Only 10 tracks

The Introduction What do you get when you mix emo rock with electronica? Musical genius. "Give Up" by The Postal Service is just that. Now, what may be considered an odd mix actually works out wonderfully. What you get is a soft melodic ...

Pros: Great
Cons: Non

It seems simple enough: a preprogrammed beat off of your drum machine, add some ridiculously `80s synth sounds and some basic guitar riffs, and top it off with some straight-from-the-gut lyrics about your everyday feelings and viola, an album! But this ...

Pros: the district sleeps alone tonight
Cons: sleeping in

Postal Service is an unlikely blend of emo and club-type music. I'm reluctant to call it "club music" because it's not as annoying as what you hear in a club but the beat is similar. Normally, I despise the sound of emo and everything it stands for. ...

Pros: amazing lyrics and a great group of songs and topics.
Cons: fades off at the end but it's still good stuff.

This CD is calm, slow and incredibly well produced. Taking the place of actual insturments (though there is some guitar and piano) is some digital mastermind who has constructed very orginal but not too over-powering beats for the lead singer of Death ...

Pros: This album is pure genius, very beautiful with its melodic background vocals.
Cons: It's sad that this is the only album they've written since 2003.

When you hear the term "The Postal Service" what do you think of? Do you think of the United States Postal Service who delivers our mail or does the synthetic-pop meets indie band The Postal Service come to mind? Well, to be quite honest, the latter is ...

Pros: Excellent songs! Very unique and sound great.
Cons: Can't think of any!

There's not alot that I can say here. I started to hear this group by one song. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight. I liked it. It was new and different sounding. I took the plunge and bought the cd. Curious to see if it was as good as the first song I had heard. It was everything and more! I can't stop listening to this cd..