{"id":7596,"date":"2013-08-27T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:51:16","slug":"the-postal-service-give-up-deluxe-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/08\/27\/the-postal-service-give-up-deluxe-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postal Service \u2013 Give Up (deluxe reissue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/08\/27\/the-postal-service-give-up-deluxe-reissue\/attachment\/12878\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7597\" alt=\"postal service\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/12878-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here we are provided a prime example of Simon Reynold\u2019s thesis to <em>Retromania<\/em>: a reissue of an album by a band with only one album to their name, released only ten years earlier.<!--more--> Less a cultural ouroboros here and more a capitalistic one (coinciding with the reunion tour that no one asked for), the reissue of <em>Give Up<\/em> provides the opportunity to critically re-appraise this release, the legacy, and the extra material provided. <em>Give Up<\/em> reveals itself as uneven in retrospect. It was easy to get caught up in \u201cSuch Great Heights,\u201d \u201cWe Will Become Silhouettes,\u201d and \u201cThe District Sleeps Alone Tonight.\u201d These were great singles and still are; they epitomize the band at their best and \u201cSuch Great Heights\u201d could rightly be considered one of the best singles of the 2000s. Beyond this though, the album lacks more in memorable songs; most are unmemorable but acceptable. Beyond that, what has been the legacy of The Postal Service? They seem not to have had any sort of profound impact on music, their only cultural influence comes by reissuing their own material a decade later.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps the archival aspect of this will shed some new appreciation on the band? What do the b-sides and remixes say about the band? It\u2019s more of the same, which depending on how you feel about the band will be a good or bad thing. The two original tracks, \u201cTurn Around\u201d and \u201cA Tattered Line of String\u201d are average Postal Service songs that reveal little about the band that \u201cClark Gable\u201d didn\u2019t already show. The remixes are almost completely irrelevant. The covers here (by Iron and Wine and The Shins) bring a slightly different aspect to the songs that is appreciated, but they, like the remixes, were widely available elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a document for completists and Postal Service fanatics (if they exist) only. The band is best remembered for their singles which evidenced a high watermark, but as most of the content here has already been released, little else warrants the casual listener to buy this if they already have the original album. (Sub Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subpop.com\/\">subpop.com<\/a>) <strong>Devin King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Here we are provided a prime example of Simon Reynold\u2019s thesis to Retromania: a reissue of an album by a band with only one album to their name, released only ten years earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[754,915,1056],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-postal-service","tag-sub-pop","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}