The Postal Service "Give Up" (20th Anniversary) 2026-02-06 Jim Heath and longtime confidant

Jim Heath and longtime confidant and slap-bass general Jimbo Wallace have polished up their twelfth release

Jerry Cantrell

so during a couple days off - we cleaned it up and made it come alive

both musically and personally-a sort of cosmic worldview shift

hard-earned emotional maturity has clearly seeped into Johnson’s already inviting songs

The Postal Service "Give Up" (20th Anniversary) 2026-02-06 Jim Heath and longtime confidantThe Postal Service is a long distance collaboration between Ben Gibbard (singer guitarist from Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Jimmy recorded the Beachwood Sparks album Make the Cowboy Robots Cry and also records under the name Dntel). Ben and Jimmy sent music back and forth, between California and Washington, each adding new elements until the record was complete. The result is a sweetly charming, largely electronic album with a warmth not