“Broken Bells are a collaboration between two guys who sit at very different tables in the music-biz lunchroom. Danger Mouse is a hip-hop-savant-turned-L.A.-superproducer (his credits include Gnarls Barkley, the Black Keys and the next U2 record); James Mercer of the Shins is a singer-songwriter who lives in Portland, Oregon (his credits include a raft of finely wrought indie-pop records, a wife an”
“The second album from the Shins' James Mercer and producer Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) is a more cohesive and full-bodied work than their self-titled 2010 debut. The title of After the Disco suggests that Broken Bells' attention has turned to the dancefloor and that holds true, to a point.”
