The Postal Service
Jan 27, 2013
The Postal Service are reuniting this year with Give Up, a Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition featuring two never before released songs out on April 9th via Sup Pop. The Give Up Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition will include the original 10-track album along with 15 bonus tracks (including the 2 brand new songs "Turn Around" and "A Tattered Line of String," a previously unreleased live recording, and every other official recording the band has ever released, as well as cover versions of Postal Service classics by The Shins and Iron & Wine). The album was mastered by Grammy nominated engineers Emily Lazar and Joe Laporte. The release of the Give Up Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition will also be commemorated by the first live Postal Service dates in a decade.
Give Up was certified platinum last year just shy of 10 years from its original 2003 release. Led by the single "Such Great Heights," the landmark album peaked at #114 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and has sold over 1 million copies in the US to date. After Nirvana's Bleach, Give Up is the second-biggest selling album in Sub Pop's nearly 25-year history.
Both members of The Postal Service, front man, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello (as Dntel) recorded albums in 2012. Gibbard's solo album, Former Lives, was released via Barsuk Records last October and Dntel's Aimlessness was released this past June on Pampa Records.