Single released 25/06/2007

"Dntel is the solo project of Jimmy Tamborello, best known as one half of American electro duo The Postal Service. As might be expected given his day job, the follow up to 2001's second album, Life Is Full Of Possibilities, mixes electronics with acoustic guitars and folk music. Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis adds a dash of country to Roll On, while Breakfast In Bed features vocals from Conor "Bright Eyes" Oberst over deliciously woozy, backwards-sounding synths" [Q LP Review]

"As one half of Postal Service, Jimmy Tamborello makes a lovely crossover pop sound. On 'Dntel' his vibe is altogether more ractured and woozy though the results are just as magnificent, if a tad more dour. Vocal contributions come from Grizzly Bear's ED DRoste, Jenny Lewis and Mia Doi Todd and BRight Eyes' Conor OBerst, while match Tamborello's engagingly swirling and glitchy backfdrops to create a thoroughly enchanting record. Stunning." [Flux LP Review]

"Can you believe The Postal Service album came out in 2003? Give Up was the most wonderful collection of cute (but somehow not sickly or whimsical) electronic pop lullabies with (although quite a glossy finish) a gloriously lo-fi soul. It was the transnational project of Ben Gibabrd from US folk dudes Death Cab For Cutie and your man Dntel here - also known as Jimmy Tamborello. As Dntel, Tamborello explores a rougher, more carefree and at times more muddled songwriting process. Dreamy pixelated symphonies 'To A Fault' is a good example of Jimmy Dntel all squished into six and a half minutes. A deconstructed acoustic guitar riff flutters away, panning from left to right before layers and layers of psychedelic vocals are blanketed in floaty vinyl crackles. More found sounds fizz and pop before glitchy drum machine hits slowly rise up into a mass crescendo ofcrashing sycopated drums. One part Manitoba, One part Lali Puna...its a sun drenched So Cal daydream with a purpose. Jenny Lewis from Rilo Kiley guests (reviving her role on The Postal Service record) on 'Roll On', which is one of the more stright forward tracks on 'Dumb Luck' the stripped back alt folk song littered with electronic icing...in a similar way to some of Feist's stuff. For fans of Brighteyes, Conor Oberst guests on 'Breakfast In Bed', his distinctice voice lending itself well to a backwards sounding synth lick, micro house licks and a US indie cinematic flair. More subtle than his Californian Dublab Brethren (Daedelus, edIT, Carlos Nino, Nobody, Frosty etc) Dntel's album is effortlessly melancholic and optimistic, a feat that when combined with well thought out song structures and surprises works wonders" {One Week To Live LP review]

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, due
for release on Moshi Moshi Records in June.

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 & 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.

• Dumb Luck
• To A Fault
• I'd Like To Know
• Roll On
• The Distance
• Rock My Boat
• Natural Resources
• Breakfast In Bed
• Dreams
• Everything's Tricks