“Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service, Wednesday, July 26, 2023
After 20 years, an album and a band can become legendary. However, in the case of The Postal Service , the legacy is attached to one album, Give Up , even centered on one single, " Such Great Heights ." The Postal Service was a side project of Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard , producer Jimmy Tamborello , and backing vocals from Rilo Kiley 's guitarist and singer Jenny Lewis . But like older Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service and "Such Great Heights" is a bigger hit in the nostalgia of eventual fans, as Death Cab for Cutie's heyday with Plans in 2005 and being featured on television shows like The O.C. EVERYTHING LOOKS PERFECT FROM FAR AWAY. Ben Gibbard's venture into electronic music is a musical arc at least as old as The Beatles . But unlike The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Strawberry Fields Forever , Gibbard didn't take the electronics to Death Cab for Cutie in 2003. Instead the same year that Death C