I’ve decided to focus the first MMM installment on Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple, the successor to 2006′s St. Elsewhere. The album’s first single, Run, is a fun and catchy tune with an even catchier video (with a fun Justin Timberlake cameo and the possibility of inducing an epeletic seizure). Sadly, it’s the only really great song on the album. Whereas St. Elsewhere shined with a number of memorable cuts, The Odd Couple flounders in places as Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo try some new musical terrain. The album feels a bit more down-tempo, and I think that might be where it flounders.

I won’t call it a sophomore slump, because the album was enjoyable overall, but it’s definately not St. Elsewhere 2.0.

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