Just Like Heaven in Pasadena delivers indie rock fun to a crowd full of babies

As the Postal Service neared the end of its set at Just Like Heaven on Saturday, singer-songwriter Ben Gibbard paused to thank fans for their love and support of an album, 2003’s “Give Up,” the group’s only studio release, that no one in the band expected to become the huge hit it did.

“When Postal Service made this record, we thought it would be a tiny little record that our friends would like and then go away,” Gibbard told the crowd that filled Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to hear “Give Up” played in full.