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The Postmarks
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MEMOIRS AT THE END OF THE WORLD: OUT AUGUST 25th



Pompano Beach, Florida
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   The Postmarks: General Info
Member Since9/20/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.thepostmarks.com
Band MembersTim Yehezkely
Jonathan Wilkins
Christopher Moll

with:
Brian Hill - Bass
Jeff Wagner - Keyboards

GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Postmarks

LABEL INFORMATION:
Unfiltered Records and
Independent Label Group


MANAGEMENT:
Foundation Management

BOOKING:
Phil Egenthal -
The Philosophy Agency


US PRESS:
Andrew Steinthal -
Independent Label Group


Influencesred wine and friends...
rainy days and starry nights...
quiet evenings and lovely meals....
the countryside and the sea...
the autumn and the spring...

in general...
the fine art of daydreaming...
Sounds Like


"swoons and rotates with the seasons...gorgeous...
the postmarks self-titled debut may prove to be one of 2007's most sublime indie pop albums."

- pitchfork media

"an amazing debut album filled with bittersweet separation, forlorn lovers, and rainy days that never seem to clear...a timely release as winter's frost gives way to spring's chilly breezes...one of the best new albums of the year."
- amplifier

"excellent debut record...
every song wraps its tender arms around you...
meticulously arranged and produced for full emotional impact ...you need records like the postmarks in your collection."

- allmusic.com

"in an era of over-emotive divas, yehezkely's
reserved approach is a refreshing blast of fresh air."

- textura

"an unconventional trio with a flare for lucid ambience and smooth melodic tones...on their self-titled debut the nuevo-pop outfit craft enchanting multi-dimensional music."
- spin.com

"i could talk about the perfection of every song on this album, but for fear of sounding like a broken record, i'll refrain...
don't laugh...this debut by miami's postmarks is a stunning achievement."

- american songwriter
the craft of music

"the postmarks deliver smooth, sophisticated pop. their soft vocals linger with you the way good solid music should."
- myspace music

"catchy...sweet...
this is good!"

- under the radar magazine

"bacharach meets
brian wilson!"

- stereogum

"this cute, melancholic trio creates post-indie rock with intuitive ease. break up with your boyfriends just so you can listen to this record on full blast."
- XLR8R.com

"...led by the fresh-faced chanteuse tim yehezkely...on this, their debut, the weather is always sunny and warm, even when she sings “looks like rain” and “summers never seem to last.”
- kansas city star

"the postmarks are a great new band. they make melodic, sophisticated pop with a subtle sense of mystery and darkness to it. and onstage, tim is one of the most intriguing and charismatic singers i've seen in years."
- adam schlesinger
(fountains of wayne/ivy)

"perfectly crafted, lush indie-pop...
the postmarks fill a niche completely missing from the local scene and sorely lacking even on a national stage...
this is a masterpiece."

- citylink magazine
south florida

"a suburban bedroom symphony suffused with post-teenage heartbreak and painstaking pointillism... some of the most complex and sophisticated pop music around, a self-contained, hermetically pure world of orchestrated, swooningly cinematic lusciousness."
- broward/palm beach
new times

Record LabelUnfiltered Records / Independent Label Group
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 22 2009 8:00P
Canal Room - ASCAP Showcase @ CMJ New York, New York
Oct 24 2009 8:00P
The Bell House w/ AU REVOIR SIMONE Brooklyn, New York
Oct 25 2009 8:00P
IOTA Club and Café w/ BROOKVILLE Arlington, Virginia
Oct 26 2009 8:00P
Pour House w/ BROOKVILLE Charleston, South Carolina
Oct 27 2009 8:00P
Live Wire Music Hall w/ BROOKVILLE Savannah, Georgia
Oct 28 2009 8:00P
Tir Na Nog w/ BROOKVILLE Raleigh, North Carolina
Oct 29 2009 8:00P
Lenny’s Bar w/ BROOKVILLE Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 6 2009 12:00P
Baltic Saal - Rolling Stone Weekender Hamburg, Germany
Nov 8 2009 7:00P
W2 w/ BELL X1 Den Bosch, Netherlands
Nov 10 2009 7:00P
Paard w/ BELL X1 Hague, Netherlands
Nov 12 2009 7:00P
Brotfabrik w/ BELL X1 Frankfurt, Germany
Nov 13 2009 7:00P
Le Batofar w/ BELL X1 Paris, France
Nov 14 2009 7:00P
Ekko w/ BELL X1 Utrecht, Netherlands
Nov 15 2009 7:00P
Keller Club w/ BELL X1 Stuttgart, Germany
Nov 16 2009 7:00P
Gleis 22 w/ BELL X1 Munster, Germany
Nov 18 2009 7:00P
Melkweg w/ BELL X1 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 19 2009 7:00P
Shepherd’s Bush Empire w/ BELL X1 London, England
Nov 20 2009 7:00P
Club Academy w/ BELL X1 Manchester, England
Nov 21 2009 7:00P
Oran Mor w/ BELL X1 Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland

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   About The Postmarks

FADE IN.
 
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.
 
"Something about that bar really appealed to us and influenced this record. Coming from South Florida where everything is perfect and glossy, we gravitated toward the weathered aspect of New York City," lead singer/songwriter Tim Yehezkely adds. "I tend to find beauty in things that are dirty and worn down." Yehezkely, we should point out, is a gal with a boy's name; a beautiful, yet inscrutable individual possessed of a soft-textured voice that's simultaneously seductive and detached. When Tim Yehezkely sings, clocks stop, people listen, and ice cream refuses to melt.
 
So, how did an Anglophile/Francophile indie band come to form in the rock cover-versions hub that is South Florida? Wilkins had been based in San Francisco scoring music for independent films while Moll – born in the Bronx – had already established himself as a gifted composer, arranger and producer around Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. He also shared Wilkins' passion for film music, and as Wilkins tells it, the pair's friendship was sealed by a shared appreciation of the score for the 1973, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing-appointed gore-fest Horror Express, a flick they'd both seen as kids.
 
By 2004, Wilkins was periodically DJ-ing at Dada, a Palm Beach venue that sometimes had open-mic nights. One evening a girl with a boy's name got up. It was Tim Yehezkely, of course, and when the enigmatic, Tel Aviv-born singer managed to silence, then enthrall, the normally rowdy crowd, Wilkins approached her afterward, and then made sure Moll had a chance to see her. The Postmarks were soon born.
 
The trio recorded their beguiling debut album scored for strings, brass and woodwind, and found a home on Andy Chase's Unfiltered Records in the Spring of 2007. The band soon headlined a national tour, played shows with Múm, The Apples in Stereo, The Album Leaf and The New Pornographers, took the stage at Lollapalooza in 2007 and made a memorable appearance on Nickelodeon's cult kid's show Yo Gabba Gabba. A year later they embarked on a recording project that culminated in a covers album entitled By the Numbers, which the band released in November of 2008. By that point the three songwriters had begun building demos of new songs in their home recording studios, taking a collaborative approach to the process, a new combination of individual expression.
 
“It's like a Venn diagram with the three circles that all intersect each other,” Moll says. “The things we agree on are in the center of the diagram, but the elements outside the center still direct the final result. You have three people coming from different angles.”
 
Yehezkely, hitting writer's block when it came to the lyrics, holed herself up in a family friend's tree-house (an actual house in a tree, not a child's hideout) for several days where she wrote the bulk of the lyrics. “It's pretty amazing to hear songs and think ‘Will these ever come together?' " Yehezkely says of the album, “and then everything magically does fall into place. I didn't know how it would turn out. Sometimes, when you write, it isn't until years later that you see a picture that tells you what you were going through. That's what I told myself with this record. I can't see the pattern now, but there definitely will be one. I kept thinking: ‘Whatever comes out will eventually fit together.' ”
 
She combined her words and musical ideas with those of Moll and Wilkins, and the threesome recorded Memoirs themselves between August of 2008 and February of 2009. The resulting 13-track album combines the band's proclivity for gritty, atmospheric pop songs with enchanting melodies that draw significant inspiration from film soundtracks. Memoirs is a leap forward for The Postmarks, expressed with ambient textures from dub reggae, horn arrangements from classic soul, and elements of experimentation reminiscent of sounds heard at the birth of electronic music.
 
“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.”
 
FADE TO BLACK.


"11:59" (Blondie cover) - The Postmarks
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The Postmarks's Friends Comments
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Luke

Ultimate Guitar



Nov 6 2009 2:35 AM

Alooo

Your music is my life

good music

i like your music

come to mexico
come to mexico
come to mexico
come to mexico


I LOVE YOU

Luke.
Source

Source



Oct 30 2009 12:17 PM

What! Touring France with BellX1?!!!! Now I am REALLY bummed. I will have just gotten back from my first trip to France on the 9th. Knowing that I could've seen you with BellX1 and a couple days earlier Kings of Convenience pains me to no end. enJOY your European dates! Go Jetsetters!
ALEXROSSI

ALEXROSSI



Oct 28 2009 10:55 PM

Beautiful french radio show in France with her play-list of wednesday with you (and me) and you! Good road THE POSTMARKS! J'aime!

L'indépen-dance Episode 1097 pour l'Indépen-dance ce mercredi 28/10 --> 9.02 pm pour 120 vraies minutes d'indépen-dance avec :
Juulian Casablancas // Plastiscines // Frankie Rose // Two Door Cinema Club // AlexRossi // Les Fils de Joie // Octobre // Daho // Fenech Soler // Weezer //
The MFA // Bibio // LCD SdSys // Passion Pit Vs hey Champ // Atlas Sound // The Postmarks // ... affaire à suivre
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Bill

bill walsh



Oct 21 2009 6:07 PM



Great show at the North Star ! ... See you next time.
Kevin

Kevin



Oct 14 2009 11:06 PM

Theres really a venue called 'Shank Hall' in Milwaukee? LOL there town (must honor them over there!.)
Ice Age Radio

Ice Age Radio



Oct 13 2009 6:47 PM

Enjoyed the show! Thanks for playing in St. Louis last Night.
Cheers!
Matt
matt the cat

matt the cat



Oct 13 2009 5:27 AM

So I went to eat at Sonny's BBQ yesterday and in the backround I heard one of your songs playing. I can't recall which one, but I just thought I would let you know.
Del

Del



Oct 9 2009 7:17 AM

Ya'll were AWESOME at Emo's. Thanks for being super cool and signing my cd and poster. Your music is great and I really hope you come back to Austin. Take care and have a fun and safe rest of your tour.

*Delia*
victor

victor



Oct 8 2009 1:12 PM

Was great to see you again. :)
FutureKind

FutureKind



Oct 6 2009 5:33 AM

Loved your show in Tucson! It was good to meet you, too. Best of luck on the road!

Thalia
Kristi

Kristi



Oct 5 2009 1:02 AM

Love your music! Cant wait to see you in concert!
Firebird

Firebird



Oct 3 2009 6:07 PM

That was great show at Spaceland last night! Nice megaphone usage.
clarke martty

clarke martty



Oct 3 2009 4:40 PM

brillaint, kids!! you got the Songs!! thnx, xxxcm
CowHead show "JunkiE"

 CowHead show "JunkiE"



Sep 28 2009 9:26 PM

Wzup peopleZ!! I Got your songs still posted, word up!
roberto

roberto



Sep 24 2009 1:10 PM

when you come to barcelona?
Mr. and Mrs. Muffins

Mr. and Mrs. Muffins



Sep 20 2009 5:01 AM

Dear Postmarks (and Brookville),

Could you please visit Seattle? We love your albums and would love to see you live. All the coolest muffins in town are talking about it!!!

Toodles,
Mr. and Mrs. Muffins
roberto

roberto



Sep 19 2009 7:52 PM

thanks for the add!
very nice your music!!!!!!!!
matt the cat

matt the cat



Sep 5 2009 4:54 AM

great show last night. the place was packed. glad I got the lp. sorry I didnt stay and chat, had to lay sod today and my brother was wanting to leave.
-Matt
Tim Walker

Tim Walker



Aug 26 2009 7:58 PM

Your songs are very refreshing. And I love the artwork. Peace.
matt the cat

matt the cat



Aug 25 2009 11:10 PM

see you on the 3rd with p,b and j in orlando. looking forward to it.
MysterY♥GirL

MysterY♥GirL



Aug 18 2009 10:41 PM

come to seattle.
please!
<3
Robert

Robert Chatel



Aug 18 2009 4:32 AM

Man I love your sound right now I am listening to your first album it's very good I love it (your sound just like Club 8).
MysterY♥GirL

MysterY♥GirL



Aug 17 2009 5:05 AM

<3
C.C.

I'm So shy. lol



Aug 16 2009 6:29 PM

Hey there, hope your well, looking forward to hearing the new album. I love your music, just been listening to 'By The Numbers', so relaxing hearing your beautiful voice/music. All the best, hope your having a good week. Love, CC xx
Baeblemusic

Baeble Music



Aug 16 2009 7:47 AM

Miami's Postmarks swayed their way through a set of dusty pop songs that probably best fits another era altogether. Watch the entire concert at http://www.baeblemusic.com/concertvideo/TheHighlineBallroom/ThePostmarks.html.
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