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GNARLS BARKLEY "St Elsewhere" Reviews
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AZRating: 8.2
Users rating: 9.6 |
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Release: 9 May 2006
Label: Downtown
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 10.0 |
Cee-Lo tries to decide between love and suicide, Burton begins interjecting jarring rhythmic accents to make sure the song doesn't become too normal — and techno-rap-house-whatever perfection is achieved.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 10.0 |
Weird, wonderful and, yes, super.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 10.0 |
One of the year's best.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 9.0 |
Danger Mouse himself has suggested "psychedelic soul". Done and dusted. And damn near divine.
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| InsidePulse |
Rating: 9.0 |
This is as close to pop perfection as you could ask for.
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| AbsolutePunk |
Rating: 8.8 |
R&B, hip-hop, soul, blues, funk are just a few of the fine elements of music that Gnarls Barkley use to create their genre-bending debut album, St. Elsewhere.
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| CokeMachineGlow |
Rating: 8.4 |
Their debut album is a pop dream, a soul fantasy, a musical Oz.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 8.3 |
Strange as fuck has a smell and a sound; it’s the wind coming through the right speaker during “Crazy,” but God knows what that scent is.
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| AV Club |
Rating: 8.3 |
On Gnarls Barkley's debut, St. Elsewhere, hip-hop is big and amorphous enough to include everything from a lively revamp of a new-wave classic to Screaming Jay Hawkins-style spookiness to trippy songs about necrophilia and feng shui.
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| NME |
Rating: 8.0 |
You've heard the history-making single, now get a load of the genre-mashing album.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
It will undoubtedly be a huge hit and keep many people company through the long hot summer months ahead.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
Luckily, St Elsewhere does not disappoint, trampling over musical boundaries with relish, throwing up moments of psychedelic hip-hop (the title track, Feng Shui), ebullient neo-Motown (Smiley Faces), 1960s swamp rock (The Boogie Monster), stoned hip- hop/P-funk (Necromancing) and Isleys-style funk (the superb closing track, The Last Time).
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| The Independent |
Rating: 8.0 |
Danger Mouse assembles a wide range of settings for Cee-Lo's sly, emotionally engaging vocals, with the cautionary "Smiley Faces" offering an updated take on Motown's swingy charm, "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" harnessing a sped-up horn riff to a garage beat, and "Gone Daddy Gone" building a powerful techno-rock groove on a descending synth-line.
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| Entertainment Ireland |
Rating: 8.0 |
If there's one collaborative effort you buy this year, make it St. Elsewhere.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 8.0 |
The result is filthily refreshing and beside itself with ingenuity, a beastly union of early Mothers of Invention crudity with the combustible sexuality of Diana Ross and George Clinton.
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| Virgin |
Rating: 8.0 |
Unless you're expecting a flawless album of laid-back summery soul all in the same vein as Crazy, you'll find St Elsewhere a real treat - kaleidoscopic in its diversity and a testament to the duo's accomplished musicianship.
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| Bullz-eye |
Rating: 8.0 |
St. Elsewhere, is one groovy, crazy little record.
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| BBC Music |
Rating: 7.0 |
If there's any justice in the world, this album should sell by the truck-load.
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| Playlouder |
Rating: 7.0 |
So 'St. Elsewhere' is above all, a fairly frustrating album.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 7.0 |
You are Danger Mouse. You have mashed up The Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album to create the groundbreaking Grey Album.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 6.0 |
This is the result here, and it makes for a disappointing missed opportunity.
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Users comments
| Ted |
Rating: 10.0 |
The Cd is Great and Fun, Crazy Ridiculous Beats and Lyrics!...Cee-lo really out done himself on this one. Every Song is Good i don't even skip a song thats how good it is 1-14, Ummmm I Just Plain out Love It. If i had to rate it 1-10 i would give it a 20 Point Blank and Done! |
| Kman |
Rating: 10.0 |
My god, this was one of the greatest albums of 2006, im usually a rock guy, but this is just a truly great album |
| Tone Bone |
Rating: 10.0 |
Rap/Rock/Funk/Soul Cee-Lo never fails to impress me lyrically and the beats by DJ Danger Mouse are supreme. This is what music is supposed to be. |
| MEKO |
Rating: 10.0 |
I think God was in the studio helping sir cee lo on this one.. This is the kind of music I've been waiting for. I cant wait to drop my album... I think he's the only artist I can compare myself to. Being crazy has never been so sexy. What a shame...I can't even play the Cd without feeling like an animal.. What should i do with all this aggression? |
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