Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Album Review

The Odd Couple is the second studio album by Gnarls Barkley, released digitally on March 18 and in stores March 25, 2008.
The album was released to the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 on March 18th.

Following the worldwide, unparalleled critical acclaim for 2006’s St. Elsewhere and their record breaking hit “Crazy,” Gnarls Barkley released their sophomore album.
The album features 13 tracks of new material from Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green.
The first single, “Run” has been met with rave reviews, and The Odd Couple is without question one of the most anticipated releases of 2008.

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Album Cover

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Track Listing

1. “Charity Case” - 3:13
2. “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” - 3:16
3. “Going On” - 2:55
4. “Run” - 2:44
5. “Would-Be Killer” - 2:24
6. “Open Book” - 3:22
7. “Whatever” - 2:21
8. “Surprise” - 3:41
9. “No Time Soon” - 2:56
10. “She Knows” - 2:47
11. “Blind Mary” - 3:26
12. “Neighbors” - 3:06
13. “A Little Better” - 3:07

“Run” was released as a digital download in the U.S. on February 5, 2008.

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple amazon.co.uk Review

With its cinematic origins The Odd Couple is the natural title for the second album by a pair who seem to spend as much time in wardrobe as the studio and whose recordings are often compared to film scores. Their greatest hit, 2006’s “Crazy” was even built around a chunk of a spaghetti western soundtrack. Yet after the success of 2006’s excellent St Elsewhere, the collaboration of singer Thomas “Cee-Lo Green” Callaway and producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton has become a permanent institution. The Odd Couple certainly lives up to expectations, and though there is no obvious smash to match “Crazy”, it’s a smoother affair than their often hyperactive debut, the unsettling “Open Book” aside. Highlights include the excellent, agitated lead-off single “Run”, a smart slice of off kilter pop-soul, and its most obvious successor, the instant classic “Surpirse”. “Going On” manages to weld an eighties pomp-pop introduction to a surprisingly vulnerable Cee-Lo performance while the plaintive, bluesy “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” catches him at his most soulful. “Whatever” is a cute, rather bratty sixties pastiche halfway to Britpop (though no Englishman ever used the expression “y’all”) while the warped bubblegum pop of “Blind Mary” and the more traditionally ominous “Would Be Killer” are opposite sides of the same twisted coin. Informed by rap and dance, but occupying their own unique genre, Gnarls Barkley continue to soundtrack the movie that, so far, exists only in their heads. –Steve Jelbert

Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple Album Info

Released March 18, 2008
Recorded 2007-2008
Genre Neo Soul
Length 39:20
Label Atlantic
Producer Danger Mouse

source amazon.com and wikipedia.org