Dntel is the operational alias for Los Angeles resident Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service, James Figurine, etc.). In 2007, Sub Pop released the most recent Dntel album, Dumb Luck, which included contributions from a whole raft of talented people too numerous to list here. After Parties 1 and After Parties 2, a pair of new, companion EPs, collect 8 new Dntel tracks which are a bit more minimalist and experimental in nature, all of them instrumental, and feature a list of guest contributors numbering exactly zero. These 8 new tracks are also really something special.