Blog: BUZZGRINDER

Broken Bells sounds a lot like exactly what it is: a collaboration between Danger Mouse and James Mercer . Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what it would be like if Danger Mouse (half the brains behind Gnarls Barkley , 2006's wonder child) produced The Shins (another mid-decade, verge-of-being-a-has-been act). If those acts were your top-played fodder a couple years ago - and you didn't think Danger-produced albums like The Black Keys ' Attack & Release and the second Gnarls Barkley album were bland as [...]