“The duo deliver an ambitious and dreamy album that will leave listeners wanting more”
“The punk-rock hero and the experimental producer discover new worlds on a joint LP.”
““Every time I close my eyes / Someone else’s paradise / Turns me into someone new,” murmurs Karen O on ‘Nox Lumina’. She probably didn’t write it as a cloaked, meta reference to her collaboration with Danger Mouse, but it could be one. ‘Lux Prima’, the first album that sees the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman join forces with the genre-hopping producer and musician, presents a different side of Karen O”
“There’s a long, varied history of musical odd couples. Some were surprising (Jay-Z and Linkin Park won a Grammy for the not wholly offensive ‘Numb/Encore’), some were inexplicable (see Sting’s and Shaggy’s 2018 collaboration on a mid-life crisis) and some will always remain unforgiveable (take a bow Brian May and Dappy). But with lines blurring and genres increasingly mashed together in a desperat”
“Karen O and Danger Mouse have concocted a lush, vivid world on their dreamy and poignant collaboration.”
