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Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition) will be released on Sub Pop. The reissue includes the remastered original 10-track album along with 15 bonus tracks, including the brand new “Turn Around” and “A Tattered Line of String,” a previously unreleased live recording, and every other official recording the band has ever released, as well as cover versions of Postal Service classics by The Shins and Iron & Wine.
Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello a/k/a The Postal Service recently announced the band’s first headline dates in a decade. The Postal Service’s UK headline dates May 18 at Manchester’s Academy 2 and May 20 at London’s Brixton Academy sold out immediately, necessitating the addition of a second London date which sold out in less than 24 hours.
The Postal Service 10th anniversary tour will reunite Gibbard and Tamborello with Jenny Lewis (Jenny & Johnny, Rilo Kiley), who appeared on the original album and played with the band on its 2003 dates. Lewis also sings on the two new songs on Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition). Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds, Bright Eyes) rounds out the 2013 touring lineup.
Give Up was certified platinum last year just shy of 10 years from its original February 9, 2003 release. Led by the single “Such Great Heights,” the landmark album is, after Nirvana’s Bleach, the second-biggest selling album in Sub Pop’s nearly 25-year history.
