Ben Gibbard sang 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 life, this is essential,” Gibbard said in the clip. He goes on to say: “One of the many institutions – with the exception of democracy at its core – that is under fire is that of the United States Postal Service.”
Gibbard then discusses making the Postal Service’s only studio album, 2003’s Give up, by sending CDs back and forth (via USPS) with his bandmate Jimmy Tamborello. “We made a record with the U.S. Postal Service and that’s why we called ourselves the Postal Service,” Gibbard said. He added: “That I will play a song from the Postal Service and assign it to the Postal Service.”
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