“Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service

"Such Great Heights" was the first single from Give Up, the 2003 debut album by the Postal Service on Sub Pop, and it's a love song that sounds like it's floating a few feet off the ground. Benjamin Gibbard wrote the words and sings lead, and he and Jimmy Tamborello built the music between them: bubbling, twitchy electronic beats and bright synth lines wrapped around a warm, wide-eyed melody.

Gibbard also plays guitar and keyboards, Chris Walla recorded the guitar parts, and Jen Wood adds backing vocals, and the result is indietronica at its sweetest: machine pulses with a human heart and a chorus that soars.

The single added a previously unreleased track, "There's Never Enough Time", plus two covers: the Shins took on "We Will Become Silhouettes" and Iron & Wine recorded their own "Such Great Heights". It peaked at 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, and Rolling Stone later ranked it at number 27 among the best songs of the decade.

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