Dumb Luck

No Ben Gibbard, but Conor Oberst, Jenny Lewis, Grizzly Bear, and Lali Puna all make appearances on Jimmy Tamborello's follow-up to 2001's Life Is Full of Possibilities.

When Jimmy Tamborello asked his pal Ben Gibbard to add vocals to a song on Dntel's 2001 disc Life Is Full Of Possibilities, he surely had no idea that he was launching an electro-pop powerhouse whose debut would sell nearly a million copies and become an advertising-agency staple. But The Postal Service's Give Up—which…

Listening to Dumb Luck is kind of like listening to a robot cry for 40 minutes.

What do you do when your side-project takes on a life of its own? This has been rather a moot point for most of rock and roll history.