Broken Bells

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThere are, no doubt, more screamingly obvious band misnomers (the Pop Group perhaps take the top spot with their post-punk racket), but the collaboration between Gnarls Barkley wunder-producer Danger Mouse and James Mercer of the Shins really is a long way from the smashed discordance that their name suggests.Tonight the pair are joined by five other band members to deliver their melodious, neatly constructed songs against a backdrop of sympathetically glowing circles,...

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