Check out the very beautiful video for the Postal Service's version of Phil Collins's 'Against All Odds'.
The Postal Service are a band made up of members of Death Cab for Cutie and Dntel, and they make the kind of music that should really prompt the cheerful suicides of pretenders such as The Kaiser Chiefs, and (shudder) Razorlight and (shudder, shudder) The Bravery. The Postal Service are interesting for many reasons, but one of them is the fact that it is essentially a side project which really works, and doesn't seem like cloying indulgence. Ben Gibbard's Death Cab are a great band, but rarely do they ascend to such brittle great heights as 'Such Great Heights'. Dntel are ok- but Jimmy Tamborello (great name) finds his real moments of mastery working with others such as Gibbard in The Postal Service and Bright Eyes on 'Digital Ash in a Digital Urn'.
Anyway, this is the sound of today- dry your eyes and give thanks for this little nugget of genius.
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