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Article: Noteworthy music releases: Gnarls Barkley and The Raconteurs.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)(Brief article)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 28, 2008
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Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Downtown/Atlantic): Gnarls Barkley's new disc traffics in the same motley musicality as 2006's "St. Elsewhere" - a soul debut that managed to sound both distinctly modern, and unmistakably old. But on "The Odd Couple," Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse aren't so content to bask in the backbeat. Here's an album - a veritable Frankenstein's monster of influences - cobbled together out of soaring vocals and front-loaded with a symphony of hooks. It's pop-radio accessible; it's also distinctly more challenging than "St. Elsewhere." On "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)," singer Cee-Lo barks out funk verses and R&B refrains, while Danger Mouse pipes in a ...
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... ... early due to bootlegging, Gnarls Barkley's "The Odd Couple" is anything but rushed ... and angst he hinted at in Gnarls Barkley's debut, while madman producer ... double-time snares. "The Odd Couple" is not a "St. Elsewhere ...
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