The über-talented Jimmy Tamborello (a.k.a. Dntel or James Figurine), the mastermind behind the Postal Service and other synth- pop projects like Figurine, has found a new home with Sub Pop just in time to announce his new Dntel album, tentatively titled Dumbluck. The record will feature friends from all areas of the indie rock world including Bright Eyes, Lali Puna, Mia Doi Todd, Grizzly Bear, Fog and Jenny Lewis. Though the album's release date is still TBA, it has been a long time in the making and should be worth the wait. "I'm not a very disciplined worker and I'll work on an album for a day and take a month off from doing it," says Tamborello. "I mean, this one I've been working on since 2002, I think. I usually don't have a deadline to work towards, so I just kind of wait until I have enough songs put together. I would have loved to have put it out a couple years ago, but I was just never happy with how things were sounding. [I] kind of stayed distracted." In the years since his last Dntel album, 2001's Life Is Full Of Possibilities, Tamborello has been working on a number of different projects, including a new James Figurine album titled Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake, due out July 11 on Plug Research. He will play a short DJ set at the album release party at Happy Ending Lounge in New York City on July 29, one of his only scheduled stateside appearances for the near future. Also, good news for all you Postal Service fans out there: Tamborello says he is in the beginning stages of writing and recording a followup to the duo's 2003 release, Give Up. www.plugresearch.com/dntel.htm
