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...years after his last release, Jimmy Tamborello (aka Dntel) is back with a new presentation of its eclectic and collaborative style. Tamborello, also known as one half of “The Postal Service,” only includes one solo track on his new disc, choosing to work with other indie and electronica artists on the remaining eight songs. Although the album sounds at times as though its disparate elements have been thrown together by chance, it maintains a consistent musical identity permeated with complex sounds and unusual beats. Tamborello released his last solo effort, “Life...
More renowned for putting out glitchy lap-pop like Daedalus and Dntel (Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service), Los Angeles-based Plug Research has somewhat paradoxically taken a chance with a far more conventional album, Mia Doi Todd’s Manzanita. Although Todd has flirted with the contemporary sound of her labelmates, notably in a series of inspired collaborations with Dntel and Adventure Time, among others, her solo work is solidly grounded in folksy American soil, and this, her fifth album, is no exception...
Chris: Who ever said that commercial tie-ins are a good thing? When the Postal Service—a popular band on Subpop combining the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard (who is as portly as he is whiny) with the poppy glitches of Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel—agreed to a deal with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), politically correct crunchies everywhere praised this indie-rock spirit of compromise. But they seem to critically overlook the fact that by this deal, an allegedly DIY band and an allegedly DIY branch of the U.S. government have...
Also evident in the album are traces of new influences from Gibbard’s recent side project The Postal Service, a collaboration with Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel which yielded a masterwork combination of indie pop and electronica...
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