The Postal Service at Coachela 2013 (Rodrigo Pena/Freelance Photographer)
The Postal Service came onto the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival stage Saturday, April 13 with some mood music and a packed field for the anticipated reunion.
The band, which is the creation of Jimmy Tamborello and Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, released a lone album, “Give Up,” a decade ago.
The influential album merged electronic beats and indie pop rock and is among the best of the decade.
Joined by Jenny Lewis, of Rilo Kiley fame (she also sang on the album) tThe Post Service materialized underneath an arch of golden white lights that gave them an angelic halo.
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It wasn’t a mirage. The Postal Service materialized in the flesh from the opening beats of “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” cemented its set as one of those “Coachella moments.”
They continued into “We Will Become Silhouettes” and “Sleeping In” before Gibbard spoke to the crowd.
“What’s going on Coachella? We’re an imaginary band called The Postal Service,”Gibbard said.
But the goosebump-inducing set, with the desert breezes blowing under a crescent moon, was very much real.
The Postal Service Set List at Coachella Festival weekend one, April 13, 2013
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
We Will Become Silhouettes
Sleeping In
Turn Around
Nothing Better
Clark Gable
This Place Is a Prison
A Tattered Line of String
Such Great Heights
Brand New Colony