An album inspired by spaghetti westerns may sound as cheeseball as many spaghetti westerns were. And while I didn't know anything about Luppi going into this listen, I do know quite a bit about Danger Mouse. He's certainly a guy who take an inspiration and turn it into something true. Like a musical Tarantino.Which is a good analogy, really. The music has a perfectly visual feel. And while the interludes sometimes feel like filler; an instrumental like "Roman Blue" is perfectly paced and would create the same awesome no-talking moments at your dinner party that some Beastie Boys' funk jams provide.
Of the guest vocalists; it's a pleasure that they don't try to belabour some common lyrical theme to match the film-score feel. All the songs stand on their own. Jack White and Norah Jones, while never duetting, each provide an emotive story and fit each performance matching the mellow landscape that is painted by the music. (3.5 of 5 starts)
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