Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (2006)
***1/2 (of four)
As I professed in a review about a month ago, I'm a huge Cee-Lo fan. I also loved the Danger Mouse Grey Album bootleg, so to have the two team up as Gnarls Barkley - well, shit, I'm all ears. The leadoff single, "Crazy," is a breezy, ethereal piece of electronic soul you can sing along to like a kid and still respect like an adult. I'm willing to forgive the dumbass band name and maybe even buy the album. In a store, like we used to do.
The "Crazy" video, from director Robert Hales, perfectly suits the transient, otherworldly feel of the song. It's sparse and involved at the same time, a series of symmetrical, moving ink blot images on a white backdrop. Most feature a pair of Cee-Los singing the lyrics in profile while splotches of ink morph into varying abstract images. Danger Mouse, looking like Matisyahu's swarthier older brother, cameos from time to time, as do cartoon beetles, spiders and birds. Use of color is judicious and sparing, and the entire affair is guaranteed to blow your mind in a completely harmless way.
As I professed in a review about a month ago, I'm a huge Cee-Lo fan. I also loved the Danger Mouse Grey Album bootleg, so to have the two team up as Gnarls Barkley - well, shit, I'm all ears. The leadoff single, "Crazy," is a breezy, ethereal piece of electronic soul you can sing along to like a kid and still respect like an adult. I'm willing to forgive the dumbass band name and maybe even buy the album. In a store, like we used to do.
The "Crazy" video, from director Robert Hales, perfectly suits the transient, otherworldly feel of the song. It's sparse and involved at the same time, a series of symmetrical, moving ink blot images on a white backdrop. Most feature a pair of Cee-Los singing the lyrics in profile while splotches of ink morph into varying abstract images. Danger Mouse, looking like Matisyahu's swarthier older brother, cameos from time to time, as do cartoon beetles, spiders and birds. Use of color is judicious and sparing, and the entire affair is guaranteed to blow your mind in a completely harmless way.
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