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The Postal Service’s Ben Gibbard: ‘You write things when you were 21 that you wouldn’t write today’
The frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service is playing shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of both acts’ breakout albums. Is he still happy to be the poster boy for 00s teenage angst?
Transatlanticism, released in October 2003, began Death Cab’s ascent, buoyed by singles The Sound of Settling and Title and Registration, two of their best-loved songs, both widely used in soundtracks – most famously, as Gibbard points out, “a little show called The OC ”. Their eighth studio album, Kintsugi from 2015, marked Gibbard’s divorce from New Girl actor Zooey Deschanel after two years of marriage (and also presaged the departure of founding guitarist Chris Walla, citing dissatisfaction with the band’s musical direction). “It’s a true honour to have made music that has become so important to some people.” With that relationship comes “an obligation”, Gibbard continues, sincerely, to ensure that concert-goers leave “feeling that they got the experience that they wanted”.
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