{"id":41955,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/broken-bells\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"broken-bells","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/broken-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2004 Shins frontman James Mercer met Brian Burton, who produced the second Gorillaz album and Beck\u2019s Modern Guilt<\/i>. They decided to collaborate on a project they called Broken Bells. Brian Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is responsible for the trip-hop influences and electronics on their recently released self-titled debut album. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Although its lyrics are a bit meaningless (let\u2019s call it poetic), \u201cThe High Road\u201d is an awesome album opener. The slow, dragging hip-hop beat mixes perfectly with the dreamy vocals. A simple but effective synthesizer guides the track into four minutes of beauty. The second track, \u201cVaporize,\u201d is great too. The first 30 seconds are guitar and vocals but when the hip-hop drums kick in you start to understand what Burton\u2019s intentions are. I\u2019ve never heard indie and hip-hop merge so well.<\/p>\n

Another interesting song is \u201cSailing To Nowhere,\u201d which sounds like a combination of Muse and Shins with a hint of Radiohead. One of the album’s best songs is \u201cMongrel Heart,\u201d a catchy song that instantly reminded me of The Whitest Boy Alive. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the space fillers that almost spoiled my enthusiasm. \u201cYour Head Is On Fire\u201d is dull and meaningless; it\u2019s one of those tracks you\u2019ll never notice. \u201cOctober\u201d is equally boring and \u201cTrap Doors,\u201d which sounds like an Air or Zero 7 song, isn\u2019t worth mentioning either except from the excellent chorus. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Broken Bells<\/i> is jammed with infectious songs. The only problem is it lacks the diversity that is required to really impress. After a while it all becomes repetitive and dull. Altogether Broken Bells<\/i> is an awesome album with a lot of great songs and just a few minor imperfections which we just have to take for granted!<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":30301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8565],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-41955","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-broken-bells","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41955"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}