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| 4.5 superb | -1up!- | June 14th 11 |
This rewards repeated listens. The cohesiveness throughout gives this album a soul which is not to be overlooked.
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| 0.0 | DocSportello | June 13th 11 |
Thank goodness for brainy producer Brian Burton; by juggling both popular undertakings and lesser-known "cult" projects like Dark Night of the Soul, he has proven himself an eclectic juggernaut whose mindset is not so much an entertainer's as it is an artist's. The trajectory of his career, littered not with classics but, instead, with surprisingly good, imaginative releases, is somewhat comparable to that of actor James Franco, another twenty-first century Renaissance man. But here's the rub: Franco's heterogeneous exploits, such as his bizarre soap opera stint, have rocketed the man to pop-culture stardom, and yet Burton's are largely treated to the kiss of obscurity. I'm not at all implying that Danger Mouse merits Hollywood-scale recognition, because in relation to the California limelight, even your beloved Radioheads and Opeths are shrimpy little small fries. All I'm saying is that the skinner half of Gnarls Barkley shouldn't be forgotten in the shadow of his soulful counterpart, that experiments like Rome shouldn't be damned to the underground. Nothing I say, however, no matter how eloquently or how persuasively I word it, can save Rome from its fate, which is to be hidden in the B-list music garages of critics and fans alike, so to speak. Behind the spiderwebs and clutter of tomorrow's abandoned sound waves, there's Rome, a record that can never be accused of being overrated and whose namelessness may make it, like all lost trinkets, all the more special.
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| 3.0 good | patrickfannon | May 27th 11 |
An astoundingly pretty, bass-driven score with touches of acoustic guiatar and swaths of strings. Danger Mouse and Luppi create a masterful mindscape, but, inexplacably, allow Jack White and Norah Jones to ruin the continuity of the music itself. This should have been a score, not a score/soundtrack hybrid.
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| 3.0 good | AggravatedYeti | May 16th 11 |
this record is quite good and probably better than I am giving it credit for. high-five Jack.
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| 3.0 good | MvdW | April 5th 23 |
| 3.5 great | jtswope | November 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Scarfo | November 27th 13 |
| 2.5 average | tnd | February 16th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Lobber | February 4th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Wyrm | April 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | uman32 | January 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Smevin | December 30th 11 |
| 3.0 good | doqtor | December 28th 11 |
| 3.5 great | peaks40 | December 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | JPaller | December 27th 11 |
| 3.5 great | bonus | December 14th 11 |
| 3.0 good | sierena | September 30th 11 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | June 27th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | kojpl | June 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Zephir | June 14th 11 |
| 2.5 average | lobby | June 9th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Teto | June 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 32left | May 19th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Jekub | May 12th 11 |
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