Post-postmodernism Sighting #426

Found in Pitchfork Media's #56 entry for Best 100 Records of 2000-2004, #56 being The Postal Service's "Give Up". The writer is Tom Breihan.

"Give Up sounds like that scene from season one of "The O.C." where Seth jumps up on Summer's kissing-booth table and demands that she stop ignoring him and kiss him in front of everyone. It's the sound of a hyper-articulate emo dork pulling his head out of his ass and staring the outside world straight in the face, an emo album that dares to be something other than emo."

To wit, PPM personified is that "hyper-articulate emo dork pulling his head out of his ass and staring the outside world straight in the face."