Labels: Sub Pop
Review by: Unknown
I can’t decide if this is the point that cements my love of the Postal Service or it marks my growing bored with them”¦ This is the third and I assume final ep from the Give Up lp and it is one of the best tracks without doubt, if someone bought this to check the band then they would be all over the album in a second”¦ so I guess as a single this track serves its purpose.
What is pissing me off though is the ₤5.99 I dropped on this ep, it looks fantastic in the way you would expect from a postal record, cartoon drawing on the cover in a similarly beautiful style to the previous singles and really ties in with the name of the title track. Go to the record shop and have a look”¦ it is pretty, and will probably make you want to buy it. Don’t.
4 tracks, which is fair”¦ One of them is the title track, one of them is a fucking horrific remix of the title track which sounds so fucking bad it is not true. I was sitting with my bro and we got half way through it before we had to dingy it”¦ horrific. I have zero music talent and I could remix this far better. Then on the flip there is an exclusive track called “Be Still My Heart’ which is obviously included because it is what will make kids buy it”¦ well, it is pish too. Fuck it. The final inclusion is a quiet remix of “Nothing Better’ which is quite nice but you know, fuck it, it is tainted with the dirt off the rest of this record so let us call it pish too.
Tamborello needs to do a new Dntel album, Gibbard needs to do a new death cab album and quit ripping the arse out of one amazing album. Yeah the title of the album this single is promoting is “Give Up.’ How apt”¦