PLUG RESEARCH
2009
Early Works For Me If It Works For You
About This Album
Jimmy Tamborello's breakthrough album as Dntel, 2001's Life Is Full of Possibilities, was something of a watershed in the evolution of the gentle, organic strains of electronic music that coalesced in the early 2000s as lap-pop and folktronica, particularly as those strands intertwined with elements of dream pop and vocal indie rock. It was also, as a precursor to the Postal Service, an indirect harbinger of the decade's synth pop resurgence, though that's another story. His earlier output, originally issued on the Phthalo label and long since out of print, but collected here in a handsome three-disc edition, may be less distinguished and distinctive, but it's accomplished and enjoyable material in its own right. Capturing a phase of that evolution more in line with the prevailing IDM currents of the 1990s, Dntel's first two albums are notably more beat-heavy than his later efforts. Early Works for You If It Works for Me (the first official Dntel album, recorded between 1995 and 1997) is dominated by skittering, ยต-Ziq-style breakbeats awash in ambient atmospherics, while Something Always Goes Wrong (released later but actually recorded earlier, in 1994) is somewhat gentler and simpler, with longer and dreamier tracks that serve as a better showcase for Tamborello's sense of melody and his penchant for hazy reverie.
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