The Heartfelt

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  Robert Rackley

  When Get Up by the Postal Service dropped, few expected the kind of impact it would have. My brother and sister saw the sort of supergroup at a small club just before their popularity spiked. When someone wanted to trace the origins of the group's sound, checking out Dntel, Postal Service member Jimmy Tamborello's main project, made sense. But a closer musical cousin was the work Tamborello did as part of Figurine.

  The Heartfelt released in 2001, just as a rabid techno-optimism was taking hold, even through the dot-com bust. Despite the prominence of blips and bloops throughout the album, there was a sort of pessimistic take on a more technologically empowered future. Tamborello warbles on the first track "International Space Station" about prefering humans to machines.

  The impossibly romantic track "The Stranger" is my favorite here and one that I've loved since those days in the mid-aughts when I first attached to this album.