![]() The album's sole cover, Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone", sees Danger Mouse returning to his indie roots. Two songs in particular give it a run for its money. Elsewhere more mindblowing than that song is the fact that the rest of the album stands up to it. In fact, maybe the only thing to be found on St. Yeah, this is sheer Motown, but I am not exaggerating when I say that it stands up to all but the very best songs released with that label's prestigious imprint. Man's got soul like you wouldn't believe. I've heard this guy rap before, but you wanna hear him sing. This is everything we could have hoped for in a collaboration between these two and more - haunting backing vocals, a smooth, funky bassline, strings lifted straight from the Motown bag of tricks, absolutely fantastic lyrics ('Who do you, who do you think you are? Ha ha ha.bless your soul.you really think you're in control?), a melody to die for, and an absolutely stunning performance from Cee-Lo. In fact, this is potentially the song of the decade (hell, commercially, it already is in England). ![]() ![]() Song of the year? If it's not, then we are in for one hell of a treat when someone tops it. Vocal duties go to Cee-Lo Green, who you may or may not know from Goodie Mob, vague affiliations with Outkast, and two acclaimed solo releases. You might also be interested to know that he started his career doing remixes for - of all the bands! - Neutral Milk Hotel. He's perhaps still most famous for being the mastermind behind the world's most notorious bootleg, The Grey Album (an inspired mash-up of Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles' White Album), but he's also the man behind the music for the last Gorillaz album, Demon Days. Production duties are handled by DJ Danger Mouse, who is quietly becoming the best producer in the world. Reviews are usually daunting because you're not sure what to say this one's going to be tricky simply because there's so much to get through!įor the uninitiated, Gnarls Barkley are this year's very own hip-hop dream team. *Palookaville is Fatboy Slim's latest album, with a much warmer and more relaxed Big Beat sound (on the whole) than some of his other works, or others of the genre.Man, there are so many reasons to love Gnarls Barkley it's practically impossible to know where to start. ![]() ![]() Give this album a go, odds are you'll find something to your liking. Gone Daddy Gone is verging upon Big Beat (as in modern, Palookaville*-esque Big Beat) Necromancing is verging upon Abstract Hip Hop (or 'Trip Hop') This is a seriously hard album to classify the mix of genres is incredible. There's the dangerously catchy, and love-at-listen-loveable 'Crazy' (you've probably heard it somewhere), the WEIRD 'Necromancing', the brilliant and slighly laid-back, but oh-so-beautiful 'Who Cares?' and one of my favourites, the simple, progressing and bouncing, "Gone Daddy Gone" While is only short (less than 40 mins?), it has such a huge, eclectic collection of songs that you won't even notice (i only noticed because someone else mentioned it, it had never even occured to me prior to that). I argue, in direct contradiction to 'ibbjamin', that this album is well-worth the purchase. ![]()
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