Dntel - Rock My Boat

What this video is

Released in April 2007 on Sub Pop Records, 'Rock My Boat' arrives at the height of Jimmy Tamborello's cultural prominence in the wake of The Postal Service's landmark 2003 album Give Up. Dumb Luck — Dntel's fourth studio album and first for Sub Pop — represented a long-awaited return to the Dntel moniker after nearly six years, recorded between 2002 and 2006 with an unusually rich roster of mid-2000s indie stars.…

Why it matters

The video documents the aesthetic vocabulary of mid-2000s indietronica at its most intimate: hand-drawn animation standing in for the personal, bedroom-producer sensibility that defined Tamborello's work. As a Sub Pop release bridging Postal Service-era electropop with glitch-inflected ambient…