Dailyish Reviews - Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
This album is a giant relief. Not just because the tension that precedes sophomore releases is like looking for a red tag in your locker when you’re Wesley Snipes trying to make the opening day squad of the Cleveland Indians, but also because Gnarls Barkley is a band loaded with pressure. This will inevitably happen when you have the credits and credentials of two men like Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green. After pleasing a variety of FM radio listeners in 2006 with St. Elsewhere (and over-played single “Crazy”) we finally get to see where the odd couple are planning to take us with their creative pleasures. It’s satisfying to hear Gnarls Barkley turn down the rap, and turn up the soul. Danger Mouse is a far better pop music producer than he is a hip-hop producer, and he’s not too bad at that to begin with. I imagine this record (like Cee-Lo) will only get better with age.
Atlantic
3/5
–Trevor Risk
