Jimmy Tamborello se considera un tonto con suerte, un tipo tímido y humilde a quien el éxito le pilló desprevenido en Life is full of possibilities (2001) y dejó totalmente descolocado con su banda The Postal Service junto a Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie). Seis años después, retoma su proyecto inicial tras despacharnos la pasada temporada ese Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake bajo su otro alias James Figurine.
Para este Dumb Luck, el artista californiano se ha puesto al frente de una retahíla de colaboradores ilustres y compartiendo composición, han creado un trabajo en el que sin abandonar los preceptos de los que siempre hizo gala, se acercan al pop, a través de altas dosis de electrónica experimental, beats, atmósferas y texturas marca de la casa.
Así, como si de una megaestrella de los noventa se tratara (véanse The Chemical Brothers, David Holmes, Massive Attack, Moby, etc.) se ha rodeado de una serie de invitados de los más variados estilos: desde el country pop de Arthur & Yu en la redonda “The Distance” a la acústica y siempre pausada Mia Doi Todd (“Rock My Boat”). Desde psicoledia a manos de Grizzly Bear (“To a fault”) al indierock de Jenny Lewis de Rilo Kiley (“Roll On”) o al folk a manos de Conor Oberst de Bright Eyes (“Breakfast In Bed”), sin olvidar la magia habitual de Lali Puna (“I’d Like To Know”) o a los peculiares Fog (“Natural Resources”).
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river/ You can hear the boats go by / You can spend the night beside her / And you know that she’s half crazy / But that’s why you want to be there / And she feeds you tea and oranges / That come all the way from China / And just when you mean to tell her / That you have no love to give her / Then she gets you on her wavelength / And she lets the river answer / That you’ve always been her lover / And you want to travel with her / And you want to travel blind / And you know that she will trust you / For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind.
And Jesus was a sailor / When he walked upon the water / And he spent a long time watching / From his lonely wooden tower / And when he knew for certain / Only drowning men could see him / He said “All men will be sailors then / Until the sea shall free them” / But he himself was broken / Long before the sky would open / Forsaken, almost human / He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone / And you want to travel with him / And you want to travel blind / And you think maybe you’ll trust him / For he’s touched your perfect body with his mind.
Now Suzanne takes your hand / And she leads you to the river / She is wearing rags and feathers / From Salvation Army counters / And the sun pours down like honey / On our lady of the harbour / And she shows you where to look / Among the garbage and the flowers / There are heroes in the seaweed / There are children in the morning / They are leaning out for love / And they will lean that way forever / While Suzanne holds the mirror / And you want to travel with her / And you know that you can trust her /For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind…
“Suzanne”, Leonard Cohen (1968)
Interpretada por Nick Cave, Perla Batalla y Julie Christensen para el homenaje a Cohen: I’m Your Man.
