Get Help

Say hello to the new Postal Service (in theory, not musically). Get Help began as an over-the-internet project between Boston's Tony Skalicky and New York's Mike Ingenthron. It's a bit difficult, through the beginning of this disc, to figure out just who Get Help are. On lead-off track, "Traveler's Shave Kit," co-lead singer Skalicky is a dead ringer for Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum. Ingenthron takes over vocal duties on song two and moves The End Of The New Country in a decidedly more Guided By Voices direction. Skalicky returns for the stand-out third track and suddenly the duo sound just like Interpol. At 15 tracks long, The End Of The New Country has a lot of music stuffed into its 45 minutes, but there's really nothing that begs to be thrown away. This is a dour disc, but it's never a downer. Debuts are not often this immediately likable.