Brian Burton has come a long way since I first heard of him six years ago with The Grey Album that initiated my enthusiasm for the producer. His mash-up of The Beatles’ LP The Beatles (or commonly known as The White Album) and Jay-Z’s The Black Album was, at the time, considered the ultimate mash-up of all mash-ups, which meant it was completely illegal.
Time has passed and now that he has had comfortable (and more legal) fame with his other project Gnarls Barkley, he’s decided to go even further than his typical frame of hip hop and r & b. Danger Mouse went indie.
Danger Mouse and James Mercer from The Shins have finally released their newly banded Broken Bells’ album, adequately titled Broken Bells. The two, who initially met at a Danish music festival in 2004, admired each others work and have been working on their debut since 2008. The two great minds combined their hip hop and indie forces and have developed an in between sound of melodic transgressions with hints of Burton’s signature style of a little soul and a little electronic.
Here is an in-studio clip of their first single, which was released in December and recorded for Pitchfork.tv.
Check out their shiny website for touring details and to buy the album that is out today.
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