| | SPIN.com: Danger Mouse - The Grey Album |
 | | But Danger Mouse’s album is a whole different rodent–it doesn’t sound the least bit slapped together, and while the novelty factor alone makes it worth the download time, it works as a cohesive album long after the initial shock (“Blimey, he’s rapping over ‘Helter Skelter!’”) wears off. |
 | | Danger Mouse–who, with his MC partner, Jemini, released the excellent indie-rap album Ghetto Pop Life last year–chops and dices and jumbles the Fab Four, building weird, astonishing beds for Hova’s rhymes instead of just letting extended loops of Beatles bliss ride out. |
 | | There are some moments of jaw-dropping invention here, like when Danger Mouse cuts up the acoustic-guitar line from “Julia” to mimic Timbaland’s trademark shuffle on “Dirt off Your Shoulder.” But the real accomplishment of The Grey Album is how it lets us hear two ubiquitous pop-music figures in new ways. |
| www.spin.com /reviews/magazine/2004/04/danger_mouse_grey_album (390 words) |