The Postal Service - A Tattered Line of String

What this video is

Released June 18, 2013, this video accompanied the first new Postal Service material in a decade, timed to the Give Up Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition on Sub Pop. The band's reunion — including sold-out arena shows and a Coachella headline set — reframed The Postal Service as a canonical act of early-2000s indie-electronica. Directed by the Parisian collective AB/CD/CD, the video carries a distinctly European…

Why it matters

Represents a rare 10-year-gap single from a defining act of early-2000s indie-electronica, bridging the aesthetic of Sub Pop bedroom-pop with European music video art direction. As an artifact it documents the reunion moment of The Postal Service and the enduring resonance of the Give Up album as…

The director

AB/CD/CD is a Paris-based directorial collective founded in 2009, named for the initials of its founding members Arnaud Boutin, Camille Dauteuille, and Clément Dozier. Their breakthrough came with the Lily Allen 'Fuck You' video. Credits include Kasabian,…