Gnarls Barkley Album: “St. Elsewhere”
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Release Date:2006-01-01
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Type:Album
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Genre:Hip-Hop/Rap, Rock, Adult Alternative
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Label:Downtown Recordings
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:878037000368
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Review - Yahoo! Music - Craig Rosen :
The producer known as Danger Mouse has already proven to be an MVP (most valuable producer or player, your pick). He’s the man behind the Jay-Z-meets-the Beatles mash-up The Grey Album and the co-producer of Gorillaz 2005 breakthrough Demon Days. It’s not too surprising to find he’s half of this inventive duo, whose name is a play on loudmouth pro basketball star-turned-loudmouth-broadcaster Charles Barkley. The real surprise here is Cee-Lo Green, an overlooked solo artist and former member of the Goodie Mob. It’s his voice -- part Al Green, Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals) and Jimmy Somerville (Bronski Beat) -- that has the irresistible “Crazy” cutting through the radio clutter and topping charts on both sides of the Atlantic. “Crazy” is a must-have single, but there’s plenty on St. Elsewhere that makes the whole album worthy of a purchase. A faithful cover of the Violent Femmes 1983 classic “Gone Daddy Gone,” doesn’t add much to the original rather than some modern percussion, but it does illustrate the breadth of Gnarls’s musical chops, which stretch from hip-hop and soul to alt-rock and psychedelia. Elsewhere, “Necromancer” has Alice Cooper’s “I Love The Dead” reincarnated as a spooky trip-hop number, while Cee-Loo and Danger Mouse channel the spirits of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Bobby “Boris” Pickett on “The Boogie Monster,” insuring, if nothing else, that Gnarls will be generating play at least through Halloween.
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