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By now, even after that sneaky promo campaign, you may know Broken Bells is the post-Dark Night Of The Soul collision of Danger Mouse and Starbucks sweetheart James Mercer. The twosome now have a video for their self-titled debut’s first single “The High Road,” which finds Mercer on vocals, guitars, bass; Mouse on organ, drums, piano, synths and bass. For the video, director Sophie Muller literalizes the song’s title: We find the guys on a lonely highway where they chase down some kid in his pajamas and steal his toy car, but otherwise remain largely distant and removed when come upon a projected fire, a bored burlesque, a horse, various folks in differing states of stress, a meta car accident, themselves. Cormac McCarthy soundtracked by Zach Braff?

Broken Bells is out 3/9 via Columbia.

Comments (9)
  1. The Only Living Boy In New York  |   Posted on Jan 27th, 2010

    I’ve never watched an episode of Scrubs…I can’t tell you how proud I am about that…

  2. i could imagine turk and scrubs remaking this video

  3. Walter Peck  |   Posted on Jan 27th, 2010

    I’m surprised they could afford Kevin Spacey for this video.

  4. Rory  |   Posted on Jan 28th, 2010

    Isn’t this st.vincents video for Marrow but at night time?

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