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The Postmarks, from Miami, FLA, have been quietly amassing quite a following in 2008 as they’ve released a new cover song each month all based on the theme of numbers: the songs’ titles consecutively climb from one to eleven – the twelfth song is cleverly left for the Pointer Sisters’ “Pinball Number Count,” made popular by Sesame Street.

Each track is treated to a very distinct arrangement by the band. “I think in doing covers, there are two ways of approaching it,” explains the band’s Christopher Moll. “One, you scientifically-backwards engineer the original and try to recreate it down to a ‘t.’ The other, you use the arrangements of the original as a starting point and let the creative and sonic precedents you’ve laid down with your own music guide you. For us, it had to be the latter; taking many of these disparate originals and re-sculpting them into something that worked within our universe to create something that felt like a whole.”

The band has already announced that By The Numbers, a collection of all the tracks on one CD, is going to be available November 11 on the Unfiltered label. The songs cover everything from Bob Marley to The Cure, to the Jesus and Mary Chain to David Bowie.

The first 8 tracks are still available for free, and you can get them now at from eMusic, and by clicking on linked songs in the tracklisting below:

1. One Note Samba
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Three Little Birds
4. Ox4
5. Five Years
6. Six Different Ways
7. 7-11
8. Eight Miles High
9. Nine Million Rainy Days
10. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
11. 11:59
12. Pinball Number Count

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