ARTIST: Dntel
TITLE: Dumb Luck
LABEL: Sub Pop Records
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 172kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-04-24
RIP DATE: 2007-04-03
Track List
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1. Dumb Luck 5:21
2. To A Fault (Feat. Grizzly Bear) 6:32
3. I'd Like To Know (Feat. Lali 3:47
Puna)
4. Roll On (Feat. Jenny Lewis) 3:40
5. The Distance (Feat. Arthur & 4:05
Yu)
6. Rock My Boat (Feat. Mia Doi 3:52
Todd)
7. Natural Resources (Feat. Andrew 4:38
Broder of Fog)
8. Breakfast In Bed (Feat. Conor 3:52
Oberst)
9. Dreams (Feat. Mystic Chords of 5:34
Memory)
Release Notes:
Jimmy Tamborello likes to take his time. Thirteen years after starting to work
under the Dntel moniker and almost six years after releasing his last Dntel
full-length, Life is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research), he has painstakingly
built and birthed Dumb Luck, an album five years in the making.
Thick with TamborelloÆs signature electronic washes and genius beat placement,
Dumb Luck is an album lyrically as much about human distance as connection. With
vocal contributions from friends Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste
(Grizzly Bear), Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (Lali Puna), Mia Doi Todd,
Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu), Andrew Broder (Fog), Conor Oberst
(Bright Eyes) and Christopher and Jennifer Gunst (Mystic Chords of Memory), the
organic instrumentation by Chris Hathwell (drummer, Moving Units) and Paul
Larson (guitarist, The Minor Canon) is manipulated, chopped and pasted amidst
TamborelloÆs skittish beats, house clicks, organ washes and dreamily pixelated
symphonies. The result is at once understatedly epic, ethereal and concrete.
Like Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (Plug Research), his 2006 release under the
name James Figurine, and The Postal ServiceÆs 2003 release Give Up, Tamborello
meticulously labored over each element of his bit-crushed compositions in his LA
home studio. Fueled by a short attention span, his distaste for working on any
one project for extended periods of time meant that this was, like most
worthwhile things, a process fraught with redefinition and constant change.
After all, producing, engineering and songwriting initially started out as
pre-teen after-school fun for Tamborello, whose early interests were
breakdancing music and æ80s techno pop (and later the sonic tampering of Skinny
Puppy and Aphex Twin). In the mid-to-late æ90s, he played in the post-hardcore
band Strictly Ballroom and satisfied his æ80s techno pop appetite with the
(still active) Figurine he also played stints in So-Cal pop groups Further and
The Tyde. The myriad of friends Tamborello made along the way informed the
collaborative element of Dntel; each vocal is viewed as another instrument in
the arsenal, helping to create a warm masterwork that is uniquely his.
This is DntelÆs first full-length with Sub Pop.