Away

As longtime Dntel fans know, there are more facets to Jimmy Tamborello's project than the breezy, bittersweet fusion of indie and electro pop on 2001's Life Is Full of Possibilities. Despite that album's enormous influence, he's been admirably willing to tinker with his approach on just about every release, whether eschewing collaborators and processing his voice into digital oblivion on 2014's Human Voice or emphasizing his music's flow on 2018's beatless Hate in My Heart. In 2021, Tamborello issued a pair of albums on Morr Music -- another veteran of the early-2000s indie electronic scene that continued to innovate long after that style was trendy -- that were very different and very Dntel. The Seas Trees See joined rustic folk and retro-futuristic electronics with rambling atmospheres in a way that suggested campfire songs sung by a robot. Away is just as playfully poignant, but Tamborello uses the synth pop that influenced him in the '80s and that he played with Figurine as his jum