|
Pick up the Featured Album of the Week in the XPN Music Store
Read the Review - Check out the XPN Music StoreYour purchase from Amazon.com that starts from a link on XPN.org, supports the music your hear on WXPN. Check out the hand-picked music selection in our WXPN Picks at Amazon.com section. You'll find the same prices as you would going directly to Amazon.com, and you can download to your music player, or order the CD online. Tune in to the XPN Morning Show each Monday to hear, Host, Mike Vasilikos, review XPN's Featured Album of the Week. This week's album is....
Broken Bells - Broken Bells (Columbia)LISTEN. Or Read Mike's Review.What do you get when you cross the precious indie-pop melodies of The Shins with the futuristic beats of DJ/producer Danger Mouse? Well, the one-of-a-kind collaboration between James Mercer, frontman and songwriter from The Shins, and Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse and co-founder of another ground-breaking partnership Gnarls Barkley, is known as Broken Bells. And the duo’s self-titled debut offering is witness to the best of what both have to offer. What’s clear from the onset is that both Mercer and Burton have a shared interest to explore their musical boundaries. Despite their profiles, this seems like a project of desire. The songs of Broken Bells are sunny and melodic. Burton creates at times a woozy, almost psychedelic foundation for Mercer’s reflectively penned songs like "Your Head Is On Fire." Expectations may at times derail your initial experience; this is neither a Shins album nor a Gnarls Barkley record. But as you settle into Broken Bells the appealing qualities of Mercer and Burton’s past resume’s is what again draws you in. Burton can make your head bob on songs like “The Ghost Inside,” while Mercer can still make Natalie Portman characters proclaim that his words will “change your life” on songs like “The High Road.” It’s too early to say whether or not this is just the first of future collaborations between Mercer and Burton as Broken Bells. But for now, the music world is sure to embrace this musical merger. Click here to see the complete list of WXPN Featured Albums. |
 Discover Philly's Best Local Music Dawes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rodney Crowell playing Appel Farm Arts & Music festival in JuneDownload a new Spanish Prisoners song, playing Kung Fu Necktie in MarchPhilly Local Philes: Roomtone's "Your Golden Crown"Listen to Sharon Van Etten's Free At Noon performance at World Cafe LiveListen to "It All Means Nothing," the new single from Screaming Females (performing Feb. 15th at Long In The Tooth Records) Follow The Key on Twitter  Check out the WXPN Media Player streaming four channels, live concerts, video and World Cafe archives.
Listen Live to WXPN |
