“The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
Deluxe Anniversary Edition
The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service track “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” got here out 10 years in the past, in January 2014. To rejoice the tenth anniversary of the podcast, we’re doing what bands do, and placing out a deluxe, expanded version of our very first launch: this model includes a new interview, new insights, and new items of the track and demo.
The Postal Service fashioned in 2001. Their debut album got here out in 2003, and it was a sport changer. Their mixture of digital music and indie rock not solely bought over 1,000,000 copies; their songs have been in all places on TV and in movie, and influenced a technology of artists. Last yr, they performed sold-out concert events throughout the US in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the album, and there are extra reveals to come back in 2024. A couple of weeks in the past, I spoke to Ben Gibbard, and I mixed that with my authentic interview from 2013 with Jimmy Tamborello. And right here, collectively, the 2 of them inform the story of how they made their track “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.”
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
Jenny Lewis, who sings backing vocals, was the singer of Rilo Kiley
Dntel – “(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan”
Jimmy’s band Arca as soon as performed with Death Cab For Cutie at Spaceland in Los Angeles
Pedro Benito of Sunday’s Best and The Jealous Sound
Jimmy used a Macintosh Quadra to manage his Kurzweil K2000 synth
Bjork – Homogenic
Black Cat – Music venue in Washington, D.C.
Audio-Technica 4033 – Microphone
Barsuk Records