I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for Ben Gibbard and Death Cab for Cutie. Up until 2005's "Plans", they couldn't do no wrong, and even after that not-so-great album they remained one of my favorites bands. They tried to make it big – they wanted to take advantage of the huge respect that The O.C. gave them, and I forgave them for selling out. You know what, I'm not gonna say it out loud, but "Plans" had a few great songs in its over-mainstreamed track list.

But now I'm starting to get upset. Now they have gone too far into the what-the-hell-are-you-doing land. "I Will Possess Your Heart", The first single of their upcoming "Narrow Stairs" album is out, and Gibbard, Walla and the band have never been so pretentious.

"I Will Possess Your Heart" is an 8:36 minute long epic journey that will bore you to death (cab for cutie). It takes almost 5 minutes until Gibbard's voice appears out of the way too dramatic and not at all impressive intro, and once the man's perfect voice is finally in business, he delivers one of his weakest lyrics ever:

"You gotta spend some time / love / you gotta spend some time with me / and I know that you'll find / love / I will possess your heart".

The "Tiny Vessels" or "Styrofoam Plates" lyrics had much more heart to them, as all of the pre-2005 Death Cab lyrics had. This new one just tries to creep us out and I'm not feeling it.

And the music? C'mon! Death Cab never was and never should be a progressive rock band. Their pop aesthetics are amazing, and just because their last album tried too hard to get some MTV screen time doesn’t mean they need to veer away so off. Just give me some catchy and not too sweet tunes so I could love you again – god knows I want to.

Why the Postal Service hasn't yet released a follow-up to the perfect 2003 album "Give Up" is beyond me. While Ben Gibbard is out there, hanging on to some scraps of what used to be a great band called Death Cab for Cutie; and while Jimmy Tamborello is bumping nothing but some ok releases to the world under Dntel, James Figurine or whatever, these two should hook up again and bring some sense to this world – at least for 45 minutes or so.

Well… don't get your hopes up. I have no clue when a new Postal Service album will pop out, but at least they are showing some signs of life, as they appeared on a new EP from The Cribs with a remix for the song "I'm A Realist".

And how is it? Awesome, of course. They took the way too normal sound of The Cribs and turned it into a Postal Service wonder. I don't really need to explain more – you can just listen to it and understand while I'll be sleeping in.