The Daily Swarm

Entertainment Weekly:

A lot of people have compared your music to the Postal Service. Are you a fan of theirs?
Yeah. It’s funny, because the more I hear people relating the two, the more I realize that they are pretty similar — even though that wasn’t my initial goal or anything. I definitely respect Ben [Gibbard] and everything he’s done. I’m probably a lot more of a Death Cab fan than I am a Postal Service fan. It’s an honor to be put in the same sentence with the Postal Service. What they did was incredible.

Had you heard the Postal Service album before you worked on your stuff?
A little bit. I’ve become more of a fan having started Owl City, actually. I had some friends in high school that would have it playing in their cars and stuff. It was cool, but it never really caught my ear. It’s kind of ironic, looking back at it, because a lot of people do relate the two projects. I can totally see it now, but I didn’t really then, for what it’s worth.

A lot of people wish they would put out another album. Is that something you would look forward to hearing?
Yeah. Having really dug into what the Postal Service did and what they were about, I think what they did was so brilliant. I think that record left everyone asking, “What are they going to do next?” Since no one has done anything quite like it, it’s almost like everyone is naturally saying this is the next step — maybe that’s me, maybe that’s this record. I have often asked myself what would they have done, had they come out with another record.