Broken Bells - After the Disco (2014) [FLAC]

  Genre: Pop/Rock
  Styles: Indie, Alternative, Experimental
  Source: Scene CD (outerspace)
  Codec: FLAC
  Bitrate: ~ 1,000 kbps
  Bit Depth: 16
  Sampling Rate: 44,100 Hz

  01 Perfect World
  02 After The Disco 
  03 Holding On For Life
  04 Leave It Alone 
  05 The Changing Lights 
  06 Control
  07 Lazy Wonderland 
  08 Medicine 
  09 No Matter What You're Told 
  10 The Angel And The Fool 
  11 The Remains Of Rock & Roll 

  Though Broken Bells featured two of the bigger names in indie and alternative music -- the Shins' singer/guitarist James Mercer and producer/multi-instrumentalist Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse -- the duo managed to keep their project secret for a relatively long time. The pair were inspired to collaborate when they met at 2004's Roskilde music festival in Denmark, where they discovered they were fans of each others' work. However, they didn’t start writing and recording together as a band until March 2008, when Mercer holed up in Burton's home studio in Los Angeles. The duo took a different approach to their work together than they had with their other projects: Burton avoided the sample-heavy style he used on The Grey Album and Beck’s Modern Guilt, and played only live instruments, while Mercer broadened his vocal style to include falsettos and deeper registers. Mercer and Burton announced they were Broken Bells in fall 2009, and late that year they released their debut single, "The High Road." Their self-titled debut album arrived in spring 2010. A year later, the Meyrin Fields EP arrived, featuring previously unreleased tracks as well as the title track, which had been the B-side to the single The Ghost Inside. In late 2013 the duo released a teaser for a forthcoming second album, entitled After the Disco, in the shape of an ultra-groovy, retro-futurist short film starring Anton Yelchin and Kate Mara. The album was preceded by the singles "After the Disco" and "Holding on for Life," which had an amazingly old-school, psychedelic '70s feel, right down to the production, with the latter track sounding uncannily like the Bee Gees.