What’s that about a new Postal Service album?
Chinese Democracy jokes aside, Ben Gibbard has been talking about the follow up to The Postal Service’s 2003 album Give Up, for some time now. But as of December 15, 2008, little if anything has been done related to the effort.
For example, take Gibbard’s comments to Rolling Stone back in May in which he revealed that cohort Jimmy Tamborello had sent him some demo beats for the currently untitled project, but that he hadn’t figured out quite what to do with them.
Though beatmaker Jimmy Tamborello recently sent him five new demos to work on, Gibbard says that between Narrow Stairs and Tamborello’s various projects — DNTEL, Figurine — the pair hasn’t had time to focus on making the follow-up to 2003’s Give Up. “
The second Postal Service album is threatening to become the Chinese Democracy of indie rock,” Gibbard tells Rolling Stone. “It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.”
Fast forward half-a-year and Mr. Gibbard still doesn’t know what do with the beats, let alone the side-project as a whole, as he recently revealed in a new interview with Rolling Stone:
Any updates with your side-project the Postal Service? Are there plans to follow-up your 2003 debut Give Up?
No update. 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 will this thing ever get made?
It doesn’t appear Gibbard’s main outfit, Death Cab for Cutie, will be releasing a new album album anytime soon, meaning the Washington native should have plenty of time to work on the The Postal Service’s sophmore album. But will he? “There never really was a plan to do a second album. We work from time to time together but we have other things that take up all of our time,” Gibbard goes on to note in the interview.
Then again, if the album is indeed the “Chinese Democracy of indie rock,” as he joked it is, and history repeats itself, we should get a new Postal Service album…eventually.
Until then, I guess Narrow Stairs and that re-issue of Something About Airplanes will just have to suffice.
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I don’t know. I guess most people I know who don’t like Death Cab, are the kind of people who never like that kind of music at all, regardless of there opinion of the Postal Service, who obvs have a wider audience and appeal. On paper, I feel like I should like them. I just don’t :(.
I know like a million hipsters that like postal service and not Death Cab. Where the heck do you live?
I seem to be one of very few people who loves the Postal Service and can’t stand Death Cab for Cutie.