The Postmarks

Like Robert Johnson’s fabled encounter with the Devil, The Postmarks stood at their own crossroads. They realized they needed to up the ante when discussions of the next record arose at a dingy bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. After the release of their debut in 2007, their love for cinematic themes and classic pop needed to be more than that… it needed to be realized on a grand scale in a way that still said: ”The Postmarks were here,” scrawled across a studio wall. Bands were thrown around, movies remembered, the gods on Mt. Filmscore consulted, and at The Postmarks’ feet lay the remains of an epic battle to decide the ultimate question: ”What do we do for the second record?”

“I think we made a decision at that point that we wanted to go into darker territories the first album only hinted at,” Jonathan Wilkins says of the experience. The decision led to all three Postmarks lending ideas to a concept that had already begun to coalesce, a concept they called Memoirs at the End of the World.
“All You Ever Wanted” is an epic pop song that builds over the course of five minutes, revealing a surprising collection of musical touchstones in a new, imaginative way. “For Better…Or Worse?” is reflective and hopeful, showcasing the band’s newfound bombast, while “Go Jetsetter,” the first Yehezkely-penned single, is a tongue-in-cheek look at the pursuit of material pleasures. The album’s closers are two songs that delve deeply into cinematic themes. ”The Girl From Algenib” is one part Earth Wind & Fire’s ”Fantasy” and one part Bill Conti’s theme from Rocky, and with ”Gone,” images of French new wave films crossfade to a mournful symphony, bringing the record to a shattering close. With Memoirs, The Postmarks pushed themselves and the music to another level. “Most bands that I’ve loved have come into their own on their second album,” Moll says. “They had something that hooked me initially, but I truly saw them blossom on their second release. The second record should make good on all the promises the first one made and I’m hoping people get that feeling with ours.”

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