Cee-Lo & Danger Mouse Ready Gnarls Barkley Debut

It's the round mound of soul sound: Gnarls Barkley! One of the most tantalizing combinations since Mr. Pibb and Red Vines, DJ/producer Danger Mouse and crooner/rapper Cee-Lo Green have been brewing up their highly anticipated Gnarls Barkley project for the better part of a year. They've even produced one of Pitchfork's favorite jams already: the not-even-white-label leak "Crazy", which placed at number 36 on our Top 50 Singles of 2005 list. Now, details are finally emerging about the full-length album.

St. Elsewhere, is the name and May 2 is the date. Write this down. It will come to us via Downtown Records/Atlantic, and will be preceded by a proper release of "Crazy" on April 10. While the album is not sequenced yet, other songs confirmed to have made the St. Elsewhere cut include "Go-Go Gadget Gospel", "Feng Shui", and "Necromancing". We also heard a Gnarls Barkley cover of the Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone" that's been floating around the internet, but the less said about that the better.

Just two days prior to St. Elsewhere's release, on April 30, Gnarls Barkley will play its inaugural live performance alongside Tool, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Damien 'Jr. Gong' Marley, Franz Ferdinand, and many, many more, at Coachella. As of this exact moment, no additional tour dates are ready to announce. But stay tuned: if they're anything like Sir Charles, they won't be able to stay out of the spotlight for too long.

Cee-Lo is also working on a project with superproducer Jazze Pha entitled Happy Hour. So far, only one song, "Happy Hour", has been released by the duo, but a full album is in the works. Ciara, the Pussycat Dolls, Mannie Fresh, Aaron Hall, Keith Sweat, and Nate Dogg.

href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/tracks/05-10-17.shtml#song2">Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy"
href=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/tracks/06-01-19.shtml#song2>Gnarls Barkley: "Untitled 1"
href="http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-04/13.shtml#danger">Danger Mouse, Cee-Lo Collaborating
* Gnarls Barkley: http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com/
* Cee-Lo: http://www.ceelo.net/
* Danger Mouse: http://www.djdangermouse.com/

Posted by Matt Amis on Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 1:00am