G.O.A.T.: SUCH excellent HEIGHTS by The Postal service (2003)

In 2003, the indie music scene was just beginning to break open.  Arcade terminate was exploding the world.  The music scene was catching as much as the Web as bands figured out exactly how to promote themselves on something other than Myspace.  as well as death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard started exchanging tapes as well as CDs across the country to Jimmy Tamborello (of Dntel).  Gibbard as well as Tamborello’s very first partnership was a tune called (This Is) The dream of Evan as well as Chan, for Dntel.  It was okay, however nothing super special.  however when Tamborello recruited Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis to assist provide some body to the vocals, as well as to flesh out the skeletal songs, magic happened.  provide Up, which Sub Pop published in 2003, ended up being the label’s second most successful record of all time (first was Bleach by Nirvana) as well as the driving single ended up being ubiquitous.  It was in movie trailers, advertisements, on TV as the style to the smash hit Grey’s Anatomy, as a cover by Iron wine on the soundtrack to one of the era’s most successful indie films, garden State…It was everywhere.  Also, the video is truly cool…
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Cover Art by Anderson .Paak

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