Album Review

Gnarls Barkley – Run

• 14th Mar 2008

When you make history, the temptation is just to dwell on it and not move forward. However, by using a song title, ‘Run’ that has moved acts like Snow Patrol and Stephen Fretwell up another notch. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, whose combined grandiose approach merges into the snappy project of Gnarls Barkley, seek to use it to show that their ‘Crazy’ rise to number one in the charts based on downloads only, was no fluke.

This single is set up like an up tempo Groove Armada with oodles of pop frivolity sprinkled on top, making for a lively and snappy prelude to 2nd album, ‘The Odd Couple’ (due out on 7th April 2008). Once again, it is a song that will really catch fire in a live environment and is likely to stir up bad memories for those who headed to Creamfields 2006, only for the duo to cancel at the last minute. Not to worry, it’s a more or less a given that this enigmatic pair will tour more than The Cribs this time around!

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