Indie music fans have wanted a new album from The Postal Service for a decade now, and it looks like they will have to wait a lot longer before anything happens (if it ever does).

Speaking with Spinner recently, Gibbard addressed recently surfaced rumors of new material from the project with the following:

“There are no plans to make a second record. I cannot say that enough.

I think people like the idea of a second Postal Service record better than they would like the second Postal Service record. It’s the desire for something one can’t have, the anticipation of possessing something is more fulfilling than actually having something. People don’t get what the Postal Service was meant to be. It was meant to be for fun. And just because it was so successful doesn’t mean that we have to make another one. If there’s any frustration I have with being asked that question all the time, I wish I could articulate the difference between a band and a project. A band is a living, breathing organism of people who are invested in each other in a very real way… I’ve done a lot of things and I haven’t followed up on any of them.”

If you ask me, he has a point. Gibbard’s solo album, Former Lives, is available now.

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