Name: Dumb Luck
Brand: Dntel

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sub7251pmi

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Limited edition

Release date

2007-06-25

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dntel

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

jimmy tamborello (aka dntel, james figurine, member of figurine and strictly ballroom, and one half of the postal service) 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'), he has painstakingly built and birthed 'dumb luck', an album five years in the making. thick with tamborello's signature electronic washed and genius beat placement, 'dub 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 and yu), andrew broder (fog), conor oberst (bright eyes) and christopher and jennifer gunst (mystic chords of memoir),the organic instrumentation by chris hathwell (drummer, moving units) and paul larson (guitarist, the minor cannon) is manipulated, chopped and pasted amidst tamborello's 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', his 2006 release under the name james figurine, and the postal service's 2003 release 'give up', tamborello meticulously laboured over each element of his bit-crushed compositions in his la home studio. fuelled 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 a pre-teen after-school fun for tamborello, whose early interests were breakdancing music and 80's techno pop (and later the sonic tampering of skinny puppy and aphex twin). in the mid-to-late 90's, he played in the post-hardcore band strictly ballroom and satisfied his 80's techno pop appetite with the (still active) figurine; he also played stints in so called pop groups further and the tyde. the myriad of friends tamborello made along the way informs 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. on sub pop.

Dumb Luck

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