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Article: CD Of The Week: Gnarls Barkley: The doctors are in
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- The Scotsman
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- April 4, 2008
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GNARLS BARKLEY: THE ODD COUPLE ****
WARNER, GBP 11.99
WHEN Crazy became the international hit of the year in 2006, the
prospects for 21st-century pop music really started looking up. Two
years on, this instant classic has lost none of its lustre - from
the moment that compelling pendulum beat is set swinging, you are in
the company of a bright future. Gnarls Barkley - the motley pairing
of studio boffin Danger Mouse and southern soul singer Cee-Lo Green -
just about sustained that promise with debut album St Elsewhere, a
cartoonish odyssey into the eclectic tastes of its perpetrators
which proved to be quite a volatile mix.
The Odd Couple is a marginally more sober exploration of the ...