After Parties 2

Dntel is the operational alias for Los Angeles resident Jimmy Tamborello. Jimmy also sometimes records and releases music under the name James Figurine. He is also the host of the Dublab radio show 'Dying Songs.' And he is also, it's true, one half of The Postal Service. In 2007, we at Sub Pop released the most recent Dntel album, entitled Dumb Luck, which included contributions from a whole raft of talented people too numerous to list here (a short version of that list would include members of Grizzly Bear, Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes, and Arthur & Yu). Now comes new music from Dntel in the form of a pair of companion EPs, entitled After Parties 1 and (very sensibly, given their complementary relationship) After Parties 2. These two EPs collect eight new Dntel tracks (three on After Parties 1 and five on After Parties 2) which are a bit more minimalist and experimental in nature, all of them instrumental, and feature (to the best of our 'knowledge') a list of guest contributors numbering exactly zero. These eight new tracks are also, we are able to discern even through the mist of biases both personal and professional, really something special.