Ben Gibbard performed two songs for the remote edition of the Democratic National Convention. Gibbard sang his Death Cab for Cutie track “Northern Lights,” as well as the Postal Service classic “Such Great Heights,” which he dedicated to the United States Postal Service. Check it out below.
“I think more than any election in my lifetime, this one is of paramount importance,” Gibbard says in the clip. He continues: “One of the many institutions—aside from Democracy at it’s very core—that is under fire is that of the United States Postal Service.”
Gibbard then discusses making the Postal Service’s one and only studio album, 2003’s Give Up, by sending CDs back and forth (via USPS) with his bandmate Jimmy Tamborello. “We made a record using the United States Postal Service and therefore we called ourselves the Postal Service,” Gibbard said. He added: “So I’m going to play a song by the Postal Service and dedicate it to the Postal Service.”
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