Biography

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 other's 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 a 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 old-school, psychedelic '70s feel, right down to the production, with the latter track sounding uncannily like the Bee Gees. After the Disco arrived in February 2014. ~ Heather Phares

Top Albums
1. It's That Ta..	2. Broken Bells	3. After the Di..	4. Meyrin Field..	5. Holding On f..
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Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	It's That Talk Again	It's That Talk Again - ..	4:01	$1.29
2.	Holding On for Life	After the Disco	3:56	$1.29
3.	High Road	Broken Bells	3:52	$1.29
4.	After the Disco	After the Disco	3:39	$1.29
5.	October	Broken Bells	3:38	$0.69
6.	Perfect World	After the Disco	6:24	$1.29
7.	Ghost Inside	Broken Bells	3:17	$0.69
8.	Trap Doors	Broken Bells	3:19	$1.29
9.	Holding On for Life (Zeds Dead Remix..	Holding On for Life (Zeds D..	4:09	$1.29
10.	Control	After the Disco	3:41	$1.29
11.	Leave It Alone	After the Disco	5:30	$1.29
12.	Vaporize	Broken Bells	3:29	$1.29
13.	Angel and the Fool	After the Disco	3:15	$1.29
14.	Medicine	After the Disco	3:28	$1.29
15.	Changing Lights	After the Disco	3:48	$1.29
16.	Mall and Misery	Broken Bells	4:06	$1.29
17.	Citizen	Broken Bells	4:29	$1.29
18.	Sailing to Nowhere	Broken Bells	3:46	$1.29
19.	Your Head Is On Fire	Broken Bells	3:02	$1.29
20.	Holding On for Life (Solomun Remix)	Holding On for Life (Solomu..	9:32	$1.29
21.	Holding On for Life (Solomun Radio R..	Holding On for Life (Solomu..	4:19	$1.29
22.	Remains of Rock & Roll	After the Disco	4:54	$1.29
23.	No Matter What You're Told	After the Disco	3:50	$1.29
24.	Lazy Wonderland	After the Disco	3:21	$1.29
25.	Heartless Empire	Meyrin Fields - EP	2:44	$1.29

Top Music Videos
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