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Feb 17, 2026 By Mark Redfern Photography by Jess Gleeson

Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES have shared a new cover of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights,” a classic of early 2000s indie music. The cover was recorded for the soundtrack of season 3 of the Hulu show Tell Me Lies. Listen below.

CHVRCHES had previously covered Rober Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” for the season premiere and their take on “Such Great Heights” appears in the season finale.

The band features Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty, and Iain Cook. Mayberry released her debut solo album, Vicious Creature, in 2024 and when The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie (both bands are fronted by Ben Gibbard of course) went on a joint tour in 2023 in honor of the 20th anniversaries of The Postal Service’s Give Up and Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism, Mayberry was an opening act. (Read our 2023 digital cover story interview with Gibbard on the 20th anniversary of both albums.)

“It was such a treat to get to make music for the season premiere and the season finale of this show,” says Mayberry in a press release. “Bookending the insanity and the heartbreak of the season 3 arc was an honour. ‘Such Great Heights’ is basically a perfect song so we were excited and terrified to cover it in equal measure. The Postal Service is such a special band and their music means a lot to us.”

Mayberry was also interviewed by Billboard about the cover and her history with The Postal Service. She said: “My bandmate at the time lent me his copy of Give Up as an example of good girl-boy vocal sharing for us to try and emulate and I fell in love with the album. I loved basically everything in Jenny [Lewis] and Ben [Gibbard]’s individual cinematic universes, so them combined was a no-brainer.

“One of the first US festivals CHVRCHES played was Sasquatch [in George, Washington] in 2013. The Postal Service were playing as part of the ten year anniversary of the record, and it felt like every other band on the line-up stayed to watch. We toured with Death Cab [For Cutie] a couple of years after that, and then I did some solo shows opening on the Transatlanticism / Give Up 20th anniversary tour, so there is quite a lot of overlap between our musical worlds and it felt poignant to get to do a version of this song.

“I did email Ben about it to make sure they wouldn’t find it weird and so that he didn’t think we were being creepy. He was characteristically lovely about it, of course.”

When asked how the band approached the cover, Mayberry responded: “It’s always a challenge to find the balance of keeping certain aspects of the original that feel essential to the DNA of the song, and trying to bring your own sauce to it. ‘Such Great Heights’ is basically a perfect pop song and I don’t know how one would ever top that, so we just tried to be respectful and faithful to it.”

She added that the band is close to finishing their new album.

In 2023 CHVRCHES released a 10th anniversary reissue of their debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, via Glassnote.

Also in 2023, CHVRCHES remixed “An Arrow In the Wall,” a song by Death Cab for Cutie, and shared the new song, “Over,” via a music video. “Over” was the first single for the band’s new label, Island Records, and was one of our Songs of the Week. They also performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

CHVRCHES are signed to Island in America and EMI in England. The band’s last album was 2021’s Screen Violence, which came out via Glassnote.

Mayberry was one of the artists on the cover of our 20th Anniversary Issue in which she was interviewed about Screen Violence. Buy the issue from us directly here.

CHVRCHES were on the cover of one of our print issues in 2015 and you can read the in-depth 8-page 5,600-word cover story feature on the band here. You can also read our bonus digital magazine Q&A with them here.

CHVRCHES’ Martin Doherty, meanwhile, is in a new band with Jonny Scott, The Leaving. A couple of weeks ago they released “Pray,” their second single, on Avenue A Records / Futures ✦. Stream that below.

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