Give Up
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Give Up is the only studio album by the American electronic duo the Postal Service. The album released on February 19, 2003, through Sub Pop Records. The Postal Service was a collaboration between sin
Cover art by Al Columbia
A promotional photo of Gibbard and Tamborello, shot by Brian Tamborello.
The pair sent one another burned CD-Rs through the mail to create the album.
Give Up includes guest vocals from singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis, who sings on half of its tracks.
Transatlanticism
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Transatlanticism is the fourth studio album by rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released on October 7, 2003, by Barsuk Records. At this point in their career, the group had toured and recorded for nearl
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…eclipsed the Shins and Hot Hot Heat as the record label's most popular act in the early aughts. Gibbard has remarked that between Give Up and Death Cab's Transatlanticism, "I’ve never had a more creatively inspired year." Though the album was by all accounts immensely successful, Give Up still stands as the Postal Service's…
Transatlanticism
The Hall of Justice, the Seattle studio where Death Cab recorded Transatlanticism, as it looked in the 1970s.
Ben Gibbard channeled his experiences—touring fatigue, romantic fallout, and quarter-life malaise—into the deeply personal songwriting of the LP.
Transatlanticism is bookended by the distant rumble of a freeway at dusk, captured from an attic in Seattle's Capitol Hill, seen here.