Album

• Gnarls Barkley Smiley Faces
• Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple Rare
• Gnarls Barkley Wiki

Relationships

Music from Gnarls Barkley's 2nd Album, 'The Odd Couple' which was released in March 2008. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple at Discogs. Complete your Gnarls Barkley collection. The Odd Couple Gnarls Barkley to stream in hi-fi, or to download in True CD Quality on Qobuz.com. Streaming plans Download store Magazine. Categories: All. 5.0 out of 5 stars Review of The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2010. Verified Purchase. With the exception of tracks 5 and 6 that I'm personally not keen on, this is a really good album; Great songs, great vocal performances and a really original sound. I suppose you could describe it as.

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/master/133347[info]
lyrics page:	http://lyrics.wikia.com/Gnarls_Barkley:The_Odd_Couple_(2008)[info]
reviews:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/jc25[info]
other databases:	https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/gnarls_barkley/the_odd_couple/[info]
Wikidata:	Q1060825[info]

Gnarls Barkley Smiley Faces

CritiqueBrainz Reviews

There’s 1 review on CritiqueBrainz. You can also write your own.

Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple Rare

Most Recent

Pacing: it's a term rarely used in the wild, confectionary smeared, retina splintering day-glo world inhabited by Cee-Lo Green and Brian 'Dangermouse' Burton and their plethora of fancy dress costumes. Their attempt at a cute little side project that would slowly gather momentum went spectacularly awry in 2006 with the release of Crazy - a hit that won't be bettered this side of the next England World Cup victory for its ability to leap barriers and give the prozac generation their own soulful tragic-opus. Hell, you couldn't even listen to the Ken Bruce show on Radio Two without hearing it.

So it's interesting to see this sophomore release show a little more of the p-word than perhaps you might expect from a duo riding such an incredible wave of popularity. Not to say that there aren't many lollipops being licked vigorously in parts. Check out the brat-pop of Whatever. Green - his Otis meets Ike at 4am round the back of a sticky casino voice firmly tucked behind his tongue and cheekbone - skips a mean, bellicose tantrum, declaring over a dandruff scratching beat: 'I don't have any friends at all, because I don't have anything in common with you all'. His day room depressive patient persona is clearly capable of playing up to the nurses.

But for every gasp of helium, there's three heavy tokes on some paranoia-inducing weed taken in a grotty backroom with some guys you didn't really want to know. Check the thoroughly malevolent vibe of Would Be Killer and the jittery wet pavement of sound on Open Book. Both are heavy on urban resentment with some skillful multi-tracked splicing of nervy break beats and fractured melodies; Scarcely grasped before running for cover. A nasty comedown from the deceptively breezy opener of Charity Case where calls are answered by breathy female acquiescence.

You just know that Green and Burton are still holding back slightly on this album. Songs outstay their welcome in places, and sometimes you long for Burton's muddy bathroom funk production to rub the grime off the windows. No matter; this is arresting and accomplished music. Rarely has angst sounded so engaging.

This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to:www.TorontoStarReprints.com

GNARLS BARKLEY

For those who looked further than the ubiquitous hit 'Crazy' and the pair's fondness for Wookie drummers and playing dress-up, there was a lot to sink one's teeth into on Gnarls Barkley's 2006 debut, St. Elsewhere.

The freaky, retro-futuristic soul music that arose from sometime rapper Cee-Lo Green and off-kilter hip hop beatmaker Brian 'Danger Mouse' Burton was a wonderful puzzle. Way more disturbed than it let on, incessantly original and tuneful in the most unexpected places, Gnarls Barkley was cryptic enough it didn't even let on whether or not it had a future. Freak accident or career? Time would tell.

Time, it turns out, is one thing Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse had no intention of wasting.

Rush-released online late last week, with hard copies due April 1, the pair's new album, The Odd Couple, delights in random stylistic experiments – '60s pyschedelia on 'Blind Mary,' for instance, or frantic Motown R&B on 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)' – rarely labouring over any of the ideas contained therein long enough to polish their rough-hewn immediacy.

The tone is markedly less exuberant the second time around. The closest The Odd Couple gets to cartoonish is the haunted serial-killer fantasy 'Would Be Killer,' and it's no barrel of laughs.

No, this is something of a purge for Cee-Lo, who abandons rapping altogether and instead wrenches numerous species of soulful, gospel-schooled anguish from his lungs. Sometimes, as on the stealthy 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul,' he's subtle. On other songs, he's not – the clattering, claustrophobic 'Open Book' sounds like Braveheart with angst – but his is always an arresting voice with something unexpected to say.

There's one final flash of light in the tunnel in the guardedly hopeful album closer 'A Little Better,' but nothing on The Odd Couple seems likely to be adopted as springtime party music.

Danger Mouse, too, hasn't let a million in record sales dampen his affinity for erratic, tumbledown rhythms and uncomfortable atmospheres, meaning this could be a tough slog for fans pining for another 'Crazy.'

Ben Rayner

Gnarls Barkley Wiki

Loading...

Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or distribution of this content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. To order copies of Toronto Star articles, please go to:www.TorontoStarReprints.com