Broken Bells | Pop review

ICA, LondonJames Mercer and Brian Burton are spectacularly unlikely bedfellows. Mercer is the singer and guitarist of wistful US West Coast jangle-rockers the Shins, while Burton, under his alter ego of Danger Mouse, is an inspired hip-hop producer and electronic music alchemist who has produced albums for Beck and Gorillaz and also forms half of surrealist pop subversives Gnarls Barkley.This profoundly odd couple first hooked up backstage at a 2004 summer festival, and when their respective ban...

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