Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere (Downtown Music/Atlantic).Former Goodie Mob front-man (and later soloist and Carlos Santana collaborator) Cee-Lo Green and mash-up maven Danger Mouse have managed to create a truly amazing and groundbreaking CD given the potential for interference by corporate marketing interests on an album as experimental as St. Elsewhere. Green has been given free reign to let loose even more with his trademark gospel whoops Whoops Slang for the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS), which made the record books with the largest municipal bond default in history. Notes: During the 1970s and 80s, the WPPSS financed the construction of five nuclear power plants through the issuance of and hollers (and shows some impressive songwriting chops), while Danger Mouse's pastiche pastiche (păstēsh`, pä–), work of art that combines themes and styles from various sources in such a way as to appear obviously derivative. of drum hits, organs, strings and distorted guitar samples perfectly complement Green's vocal and lyrical gymnastics on dysfunctional relationships (the monster hit single "Crazy"), paranoia ("Monster In My Closet") and standard MC braggadocio brag·ga·do·ci·o n. pl. brag·ga·do·ci·os 1. A braggart. 2. a. Empty or pretentious bragging. b. A swaggering, cocky manner. ("Feng Shui Feng shui Traditional Chinese method of arranging the human and social world in auspicious alignment with the forces of the cosmos, including qi and yin-yang. It was devised during the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220). "). Sounding like a mid-1960's R & B TV show on an interstellar in·ter·stel·lar adj. Between or among the stars: interstellar gases. interstellar Adjective between or among stars Adj. 1. spacecraft, St. Elsewhere is a sonic trip to somewhere way out there and back. It is what music listeners would be hearing lots more of if the term "neo-soul" actually meant something. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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