The Postal Service started work on album #2

The Postal Service cohort, Jimmy Tamborello has revealed that the synth-pop pair had indeed started work on a second album way back in the mid-00s.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Give Up, the band’s platinum-selling debut and only record to date, with a deluxe offering coming later this month.

The band, consisting also of Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard and joined live by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, will celebrate the occasion by embarking on a full world tour during 2013.

They’ve also revealed two new tracks, ‘A Tattered Line of String’ and ‘Turn Around’, set to appear on the reissue. And now Tamborello has confirmed these cuts were recorded during early sessions for album #2.

Tamborello told Exclaim!:

“They’re both from around 2006, maybe 2007. The files were dated 2006, but we might not have finished them then. They were from a phase where we were trying to get a record together, but we didn’t get very far. Those two songs got the closest to being finished.”

Read this week’s feature on 10 years of The Postal Service here.