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Great for a long drive with the top down or turn up really loud and clean your house.
Great album, great price, lots of extra's. Poster art, EXTRA LARGE album booklet, and a second disc of remixed singles.
I like the CD a lot and recommend it to anybody with adventurous tastes but it is not for everybody. I have had the CD for nearly five years and liked the originality of the disc but I also knew that I would not be interested in repeating the sound of subsequent releases, often a problem for bands with a very unique sound.Kind of ironic that the UPS commercial uses a song(Such Great Heights) by a band called "The Postal Service". If you like this CD you might also like LCD Soundsystem's "Sound Of Silver" another great CD.
"the district sleeps tonight" is one of the better tracks. really enjoyed this album when it came out and still enjoy it to this day. of course "great heights" is probably the most popular single off the album.
I hope that's helpful. They're playful and original.So why only 3 stars. Ben Gibbard's poetic words are incredibly thoughtful, fluent and easy to understand while still carrying deeper meanings. The truth is, unfortunately, that relaxing, soothing sounds with a noticeable but not blaring beat gets old pretty quickly for me. The CD delivers exactly what I expected.
Not that I don't like the CD in any way, but it somehow seems more fresh and unexpected when I hear it on Pandora as opposed to when I just listen to the entire album whenever I want.Still, I'm happy I bought it, and if you're looking for something that's calming, thoughtful and original, I recommend you buy "Give Up" by The Postal Service. I find them to be engaging while not so incredibly cryptic that they're inaccessible. Mellow, soothing, electronic sounds with exceedingly pleasant vocals, and steady, move-into-the-background kind of beat. "Give Up" was something I found as I was listening to my ultra-mellow station on Pandora. It is a nice, relaxing CD.What I didn't expect was stellar lyrics.
Truthfully, I would have liked to give the album 3 1/2 stars, but there is no such option.
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