After having met at a festival a couple of years ago The Shins’ James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse (better known to his mother as Brian Burton) decided it would be a good idea to do something together. That something is now called Broken Bells who just dropped a self-titled full-length filled with the kind of sixties psychedelic pop sounds on it that I could wax poetically about for a couple of hours.
Not that I am going to but trust me when I say that when you combine half of Gnarls Barkley with the voice behind The Shins, you get ten sun-filled gems filled to the rim with warm string arrangements, trumpets, organs, backing vocals and mellow beats. Okay, so “Your Head Is On Fire” with its Brian Eno-like vibe isn’t all that. But opening track “The High Road”, “The Ghost Inside” and a handful of other songs make this an album I would love to hear a sequel to!
Score: 7.5 out of 10
http://www.columbiarecords.com
http://www.brokenbells.com
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