LP version. Includes download code. Jimmy Tamborello returns with a collection of ten pop-infused vocal hymns -- simultaneously perfect dancefloor fillers and lullabies. Away is the second of two Dntel albums to be released in 2021 by Morr Music in collaboration with Les Albums Claus.
While The Seas Trees See (MORR 178CD/LP) showcased Tamborello's more intricate and quiet side, Away embraces his love for pop music. A genre which like no other has been resonating the advancements of technology from the very beginning. Songwriting was sequenced and computerized on such a large scale that it would change the sonic aesthetics of the charts forever.
Dntel is a musician who changed pop music forever -- and still works in this never-ending labor of love, both effortless and highly focused, constantly tweaking the universe of our musical perception. Whether beatless or uncompromisingly embracing the limelight of collective ecstasy with one of his most remembered tunes "(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan", his almost forgotten anthem "Don't Get Your Hopes Up" or his work as James Figurine. Away features ten of these extravaganzas -- uniting his audience once more in hope and future-bound optimism.
"I grew up with '80s techno-pop -- these influences always come through in my music," Jimmy writes from Los Angeles. For this album, though, "I was thinking more of '80s indie pop or labels like 4AD. It is a mix of those influences along with trying to figure out what elements of my own discography I still connect with. I wanted it to reflect old Dntel records as well as the techno-pop band Figurine I used to be in. I have always considered my music basically being techno-pop, but not referring to pop as popular music -- I just like pretty melodies. But with the Dntel moniker, I never had the ambition to produce music for a really big audience."
It is exactly that looseness in approaching music which makes Tamborello's style of composing so unique. On Away he combines a healthy dose of distortion with the most-sticking melodies, vocals and bitter-sweet lyrics he ever came up with --performing all vocals himself, with the help of technology. On Away, Jimmy Tamborello finds the perfect way of marrying his unique musical personality with both the demands and possibilities of pop music.
| A1 | Shell |
| A2 | Moonlight |
| A3 | Connect |
| A4 | From The Window |
| A5 | No Common |
| B1 | Hiding |
| B2 | Bridge |
| B3 | Fleeting Feeling |
| B4 | I Made Something |
| B5 | A Sense Of Dread |
