Ben Gibbard on the long-lost second album by his electro-indie outfit the Postal Service: “It’s the record that never seems to want to come out. It’s also just never been a priority for either Jimmy [Tamborello, Postal Service co-founder] or myself. The anticipation of the second record has been a far bigger deal for everybody except the two of us.” So does that mean that fans should… give up on ever hearing another album by them? Oh, I slay me. [RS]
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December 11th, 2008 // 23 Comments
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I see what you did there.
Surely they will deliver another album at some point.
Perhaps it got LOST in the MAIL.
Whenever it comes out, it will have my stamp of approval.
Should it come out, will the new record be addressed on here?
Should it come out, will it be addressed here?
@goldsounds: NICE. Consider that second one junk mail.
Maybe someone should tell them that their other bands suck.
…I heard something about it getting lost in the dead letter office…
I am confused as to how a “band”, that was more of a novelty act side project in the first place, that released one LP five years ago could garner so much anticipation for a second album that no one had any right to presume would ever come out in the first place.
Granted it was a good LP and they played the songs on The OC and it charted very well for an indie release, but still…
@Murk: We get it. You don’t like Death Cab for Cutie… no one responded to you the first time, deal with it.
Their attitude seems quite fitting for their moniker.
If you get it you get it, if not, don’t blame us because we never promised anything to you anyway. Next customer please…
Ahh Chicago mail.
Will impatient fans go postal?
@Halfwit: Murk’s right, though.
I hope they really push the envelope the second time out.
@lempha: One, Give Up sold a lot of copies. Two, five years between albums is not uncommon even with non-side-project bands. Three, the follow-up has been announced at least once, followed by demurrals.
Oh come now, Tamborello’s made some good records. There is no way a new Postal Service record will be good though.
Four, the album was one of the best of the decade, whereas nothing their main projects has ever recorded is worth listening to once.
Death Cab is actually a very good band. I like all their album s except the latest one, Narrow Stairs. I think I like maybe 3 songs on that one. Can’t believe it’s actually selling well too. It pops up occasionally in the iTunes top 100 albums list even now..
Oh and btw, I hate their response to this. Give Up sold over 500k and is one of the best albums of this decade and they have the nerve to just write it off like its nothing. I understand its their mjusic but its kinda s**** to the many fans to act so nonchalant about it.
@goldsounds: Did you get bulk rate for those messages?
Yeaaaaah pressure them to release something just to fancy fans…
@tribefreak: Give Up sold over 500k
Try nearly a million: it’s the second best-selling album in Sub Pop history, after Nirvana’s Bleach (at least it was as of ~2 years ago; one of the Shins’ records might finally have beaten it by now).
Anyway, Give Up is near-platinum, which makes people’s confusion as to why anyone — not least Jonathan Poneman — would want a followup sort of naive.