Gnarls Barkley: CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse return to end the 18-year streak with pure fire

You know the soulful sound of CeeLo Green so pairing him back up with producer Danger Mouse? Yup - it’s safe to say the legendary Gnarls Barkley are back on their signature awesomeness in the form of their Atlanta album.

Gnarls Barkely returns for one more big bang courtesy of ‘Atlanta’

It’s a salute to the Georgia Peach’s most legendary city. So how about getting 10-plus tunes with pure repeat-worthy vibes? Say less.

Gnarls Barkley, the multi- Grammy-winning duo of CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse, today released their third and final album, Atlanta (10k/Atlantic Records). Produced by Danger Mouse and co-written by Danger Mouse and CeeLo, this is their first album in eighteen years and highlights the unmistakable chemistry between CeeLo’s soaring, gospel-inflected vocals and Danger Mouse’s lush, intricately layered production. 

The album was preceded by the first single, “Pictures” released last week. “Gnarls Barkley returns with dreamy ‘Pictures,’” wrote Billboard while NME hailed it a "nostalgic soulful cut” and Brooklyn Veganpraised it “...a cinematic soul number." Listen here

Far from a reunion for nostalgia’s sake, Atlanta (where both Green and Danger Mouse are originally from) serves as a capstone to the Gnarls Barkley story. After the whirlwind of St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple, they had always intended to record a third album. Life and other creative pursuits intervened, but the desire to finish what they started never faded. Last year, the duo reconnected and set aside the time to bring their final chapter to life. 

“Life is a movie. Thoughts are theater, emotions are entertainment, and songs are cinema,” says CeeLo Green. “Gnarls is the narrator… a noun even a person, place, and thing with main character energy to match. Welcome to Atlanta. Smile for the pictures.” 

Few acts in modern music have matched the impact of Gnarls Barkley. Their debut album the platinum-selling, St. Elsewhere (2006) earned critical acclaim, numerous awards and nominations including Grammys, Brits, MTV and Soul Train, and global success on the strength of the record-shattering yet somewhat accidental hit single “Crazy”, a song that topped charts worldwide and became the first ever to reach No. 1 in the U.K. based solely on digital downloads. “Crazy” was also named the #1 song of the decade by Rolling Stone for 2000-2010 and topped the UK singles chart for 9 weeks consecutively, the first to do that since 1994. Their follow-up, The Odd Couple (2008), further cemented the duo’s impact as boundary-pushing collaborators whose sound blurs the lines between soul, hip-hop, rock, and psychedelia. 

As an entertainer and businessman with many layers, CeeLo Green cannot be summed up in just one title. He is a five-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter-producer, television personality, actor, entrepreneur, pop culture & fashion icon. CeeLo Green first came onto the music scene as a member of the southern hip-hop group Goodie Mob along with Big Gipp, T-Mo and Khujo. Goodie Mob released their 1st album Soul Food in 1995, pioneering them to the top of the emerging Southern rap scene. The Southern Hip Hop group then released two more albums Still Standing (1998) and World Party (1999).

After CeeLo’s success with Goodie Mob, he reinvented himself and formed Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse. Following Gnarls Barkley’s success, Green put his time back into his solo career as CeeLo Green and released the 2010 album The Lady Killer, which featured the hit single, “Forget You”.

Hailed by Esquire as one of the “75 most influential people of the 21st century,” Danger Mouse has won six GRAMMYs (22 nominations) and a Golden Globe over the course of more than a dozen gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums and singles. In addition to his work as one of contemporary music’s most significant and versatile producers with the likes of A$AP Rocky, Gorillaz, Adele, Beck, Michael Kiwanuka, U2, and others, Danger Mouse has more than established himself as an artist, composer and songwriter with his own artistic pursuits in collaboration with MF Doom, Black Thought, with James Mercer (as his bandmate in Broken Bells), Karen O, and of course Gnarls Barkley.