[EdipisReks]

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Originally Posted by philodox Have you heard the track with his vocals on the new Styrofoam album? It's great.

no, i haven't. i'll check it out. thanks for the heads up!

 

[false]

Another similar band that no one has mentioned is Home Video. "Dialog Box" and "We" are excelent tracks. Kinda like Postal Service but with smoother vocals and Warp Record beats. You can hear all their songs at...

http://www.warprecords.com/bleep/

 

[sleepkyng]

i didin't like IDM much until Dntel,

personally I think "This is the dream of evan and chan" is worlds away and better than anything off of the Postal Service album.

the older deathcab stuff is much better. "Something about airplanes" is great, even though the title has to be the most pretentious indy work lame emo name for an album ever.

"we have the facts and we're voting yes" is almost as bad named, but equally as good album.

 

[bLue_oNioN]

 

[strohmie]

I got the exact same advertisement when I opened this thread again.

 

[pufftissue]

Ben Gibbard promised on an mtv.com interview that there will be a second postal service cd. I hope that means in the next year but I doubt it b/c DCFC's new album just came out today.

Their Give Up single is the theme song for Grey's Anatomy, I heard.

It's a fantastic cd. Totally the style of music I dig. Not too electronic that it drags on for 8 minutes, it has words, and there are catchy melodies with an overall melancholy to the whole album that somehow manages to be uplifting. Anyone duplicate their sound besides the bands mentioned?

 

[skybl4ck]

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Originally Posted by pufftissue It's a fantastic cd. Totally the style of music I dig. Not too electronic that it drags on for 8 minutes, it has words, and there are catchy melodies with an overall melancholy to the whole album that somehow manages to be uplifting. Anyone duplicate their sound besides the bands mentioned?

Definately what I feel when I listen to this band. I didn't even think it was electronica until I thought about it

 

[Dorfmeister]

If you like DNTEL you also might try M83's "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts".

It's quite good and has a similar sensibility.

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-rev...t-ghosts.shtml

 

[strid3r]

Wow, great to see my thread revived from the dead!

I'll have to check out some of the more recent recommendations in here. This thread actually got me into a lot of different groups including The Notwist, DCfC, Broken Social Scene, etc etc. Keep em coming guys!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

You may also like Lali Puna. Their last album proper, Faking the Books is probably a good place to start. It also features rather prominently Markus Acher from Notwist, if you ended up liking them (I like them a lot more than Postal Service, myself).

 

[philodox]

Yeah, I saw Lali Puna live a while back and they had Markus playing bass for them.

 

[sedminusn]

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Originally Posted by strid3r Found out it's called Such Great Heights.

If you're a fan of Such Great Heights you should check out Iron & Wine's excellent cover. It can be found on the Garden State soundtrack. It's purely acoustic and it's a lot slower, but it still sounds amazing.