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Broken Bells

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edited September 2010 in Other Music
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNl0Jw9_Z5A

Broken Bells is an American indie rock band featuring artist–producer Brian Burton (better known as Danger Mouse) and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Portland indie rock band The Shins. The project was first announced on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.[1] The pair decided to work together after meeting at the Roskilde Festival, a Danish music festival, in 2004 and finding they were fans of each other's work.[2] It took four more years before the two started working together and by March 2008 Mercer and Burton began recording together in secret at Burton's Los Angeles-based studio.[3] The two describe their material as "melodic, but experimental, too."[4]

I Like em!

James guy looks like Kevin Spacey, kind of cool and freaky at the same time.
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    good shit! for some reason, i cant stand the shins, but I love this CD!! I played it out nonstop when it first came out....understandably, it became PJ season and I havent been able to stop listening to the PJ boots long enough to go back to it....but i think that anything danger mouse does is worth listening to.
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  • OffHeGoes132OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
    Yeah this is a solid CD, had it since April or so and haven't gotten tired of it.
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Good, melancholy album.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • False_BeliefFalse_Belief Cardiff Posts: 763
    This is in my top 5 of the year so far, for sure.

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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Really f'in cool album. Maybe the best this year.

    Vinyl sounds pretty great too.
  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    Yeah. Great album.

    "The Ghost Inside" might possibly be my favorite song of the year.
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009
  • thebrigthebrig Posts: 395
    Love this album. Bought it on vinyl (sounds fantastic on vinyl btw) and have listened to it alot throughout the year. Also saw them live at the Showbox in Seattle, and let me tell you, it might have been the best show I saw this year. I say might b/c I saw Soundgarden's "Nudedragons" show played at the same venue a month earlier. But they are that good.

    They have said interviews that I've read that they have enough material to release another full length album. James Mercer has said he wants to record w/ The Shins next, so I'm thinking we can expect more from them in 2012-13. Here's hoping its earlier.
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