Things don't get much better. Hermes, instead, goes on to "nitpick" about the things that he doesn't like about The Odd Couple, including the fact that "the title is a little misleading." What would you suggest instead? Gnarls Barkley presents: An Album That Will Hermes Doesn't Think is as Good as Our Previous Album?
Most disappointing is the fact that a writer as talented as Hermes would stoop to making the clichéd Radiohead reference [Editor's note: coincidental alliteration is allowable]. We get it. Music critics really, really like Radiohead, but can't music exist without being constantly compared to Thom Yorke and Co.? Can't a Gnarls Barkley song just be a Gnarls Barkley song? Readers will be thankful for the lack of allusions to Belle and Sebastian, though.
Ironically, Hermes is disappointed in the predictable feel of The Odd Couple. The same predictability that he admonishes Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse for, plagues Hermes' own work. Readers need not go any further than the second paragraph to know just how Hermes feels. A little bit of suspense can go a long way, Will.
Despite his shortcomings, I give Will Hermes' review of Gnarls Barkley's The Odd Couple a castle.
