Danger Mouse and Jemini: Born Again review – worth the 20-year wait
This top-notch collaboration, delayed since 2004, offers body-moving rhythms, crate-digger samples and old-school soul
December 2022
Best music 2022
The 50 best albums of 2022
Observer critics' review of 2022
Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2022
October 2022
Broken Bells: Into the Blue review – an absorbing journey
Danger Mouse’s stellar beats suit James Mercer’s uneasy vocals better than ever on the duo’s often dazzling third album
August 2022
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Danger Mouse and Black Thought: Cheat Codes review – an out-and-out hip-hop masterpiece
Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes review – brimming with sheer love of the craft
January 2020
Grammys 2020: who will win the big categories – and who should
Billie Eilish and Lizzo are competing for a string of the top prizes, but could the likes of Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey and Rosalía cause upsets?
March 2019
Karen O and Danger Mouse: Lux Prima review – soul-pop sass meets funk
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Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima review – complex and lingering
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s frontwoman shines beyond her signature yelp on this cinematic, subtle album
My songbook
'I just wanted to write a love song that stands the test of time': Karen O on her best work
From her punky breakthrough to her David Lynch collaboration, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer takes us through her back catalogue
June 2016
Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Getaway review – funk-rockers rebooted
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January 2016
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: December 2015
Will Ferrell, Alicia Vikander, Nicola Walker, Nigella Lawson, Marlon James and Kim Wilde. All these and more feature in this month’s showcase of the best commissioned photography in the Observer
December 2015
Danger Mouse: from outsider artist to musical power house
The songwriter and producer of Crazy, Lonely Boy and some of the biggest hits of the past two decades, talks to Matt Munday
September 2015
Damon Albarn suggests new Adele album is 'very middle of the road'
Blur frontman worked on five tracks for singer’s much-anticipated third album but says that he does not expect them to make the final cut
September 2014
U2: Songs of Innocence review – Blake must be spinning in his grave
U2’s free 13th album may hark back to their youth but has little of the qualities its title suggests, writes Kitty Empire
February 2014
Bono shares concerns that U2 'were on the verge of irrelevance'
Broken Bells: After the Disco – review
January 2014
Broken Bells: After the Disco – review
The second collaboration between Danger Mouse and the Shins's James Mercer is a decent, studied genre piece, but not much more, writes Paul MacInnes
November 2013
How I wrote ...
Broken Bells: Holding On For Life - live performance video
Broken Bells, singer and guitarist James Mercer and producer and musician Danger Mouse, perform an exclusive live version of their new single
April 2012
Norah Jones: Little Broken Hearts – review
Demure Norah Jones wields an iron fist inside a kid glove on her new album, writes Kitty Empire
