The Odd Couple (album)

The Odd Couple
Studio album by
Gnarls Barkley
ReleasedMarch 18, 2008 (2008-03-18)
Recorded2007–2008
Genre
Length39:12
Label
ProducerDanger Mouse
Gnarls Barkley chronology
St. Elsewhere
(2006) 		The Odd Couple
(2008)
Singles from The Odd Couple
  1. "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)"
    Released: February 5, 2008
  2. "Going On"
    Released: June 24, 2008
  3. "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
    Released: September 4, 2008
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
DJBooth.net[5]
The Guardian[6]
NME8/10[7]
The Observer[8]
Pitchfork7.2/10[9]
PopMatters9/10[10]
RapReviews9/10[11]
Rolling Stone[12]
Uncut[13]

The Odd Couple is the second and most recent studio album by Gnarls Barkley, released digitally on March 18 and in stores March 25, 2008. Due to an early leak of the album over the Internet in early March 2008, the duo decided to push up the release from April 8. The album was released to the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 on March 18.

As of October 2010 the album has sold 250,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[14]

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  2. ^ Dalton, Stephen. "Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple". Uncut. May 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  3. ^ "The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley". Metacritic.
  4. ^ [The Odd Couple at AllMusic AllMusic review]
  5. ^ "DJBooth.net review". DJBooth.net.
  6. ^ Petridis, Alexis (28 March 2008). "CD: Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple". The Guardian.
  7. ^ "Gnarls Barkley". NME. April 3, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  8. ^ "Reviews 11-25". The Observer. 20 April 2008 – via The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple Album Review". Pitchfork.
  10. ^ PopMatters review
  11. ^ "Gnarls Barkley :: The Odd Couple :: Atlantic Records". RapReviews.
  12. ^ "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 28, 2008.
  13. ^ "Uncut review". Uncut.
  14. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (2 October 2010). "There's More to Cee Lo Green's New Album, 'The Lady Killer', Than His Recent Potty-Mouthed Viral Smash". Billboard. Retrieved 27 April 2018.