Apr. 21, 2026 In Five Star Spotlight, we root around in our archives to dust off and dig into albums upon which our reviewers have bestowed the coveted five-star rating. We'll cobble together some videos and generally pontificate on what makes the album special. If you want to do some searching of your own, be sure to check out our advanced search feature , which lets you narrow down your search results by genre, date range, star rating, and more. We recently went though a pass of revisiting classic albums and bumping a deserving handful to five stars. Among these reclassified records is a sweetly quiet indie-electronic milestone with a charming origin story. Named for the courier service that allowed them to trade song ideas while living in different locales, the Postal Service formed as a collaboration between Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard and Dntel 's Jimmy Tamborello , the two sending digital assets back and forth ultimately resulting in the five-star album Give Up .…