As the gears begin to turn leading up to the 20th-anniversary live celebrations of Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service's iconic 2003 releases, frontman Ben Gibbard reveals he believes new music from his beloved side-project would only prove to be a disappointment."
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As frontman Ben Gibbard prepares to celebrate 20 years since the release of both Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism and The Postal Service's Gave Up, he spoke with host Kyle Meredith on his Kyle Meredith With... podcast about his feelings regarding offering anything new from the latter at this point after so many years, and so much critical praise.
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Gibbard explains how reanimating the long-defunct band for another collection of music would likely result in "drastically different" from the group's only release, and would run the risk of leaving fans unsatisfied.
Ben says, "Anybody who’s been asking a second Postal Service record, like really ask yourself, after 20 years, do you really think that there’s gonna something we could make that could even satisfy half of the desire you have in your mind as to what this record would be like?" After, "20 years," he adds, "a lot of technology has changed. A lot of how we make music has changed dramatically since then. It wouldn’t be the same."
Gibbard continues, "when we think about the music that we love the most and the eras of a certain artist or a band that we love the most, we’re as much thinking about the sound. It’s not just the songs or how you were driving around in high school listening to it, wishing you could be anywhere other than the town that you’re living in -- it’s the sound of it. Whatever we would make now would sound dramatically different than what we made 20 years ago, and I think it would be a disappointment even if we tried."
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