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Gnarls Barkley End 18-Year Hiatus With New Single, Announce Final Album โAtlantaโ
After an 18-year hiatus, Gnarls Barkley are back with a new single and the announcement of their final album, โAtlantaโ.
Beloved duo Gnarls BarkleyโCee-Lo Green and Danger Mouseโhave returned after almost two decades on hiatus. Their last album wasย The Odd Coupleย in 2008, after which the twoย returned to their solo careers. After 18 years, however, they released a new single, โPicturesโ, on February 26, 2026.
โโPicturesโ is like going back to square one, itโs a full circle moment,โ Green said of the reunion in a press statement. โThe spirit of Gnarls Barkley is always self-discovery. The sweet, the sad, and the strange; The universe, the adventure inside of yourself.โ
Gnarls Barkley also announced their third and final album,ย Atlanta, to be released on March 6. The duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, Greenโs hometown and where Danger Mouse spent his adolescent and college years. โPicturesโ is reminiscent of a youth spent in Atlanta, specifically the cityโs public train system. The album will possibly reflect the experience of growing up there as well.
โThe song came from a childhood experience,โ said Green. โI had a middle school principal who, every Friday, would tell me to go when I would get to school. Without fail. I was in 8th grade, and I would leave school and ride the train alone from 8 am until 2:30 pm. The hook of the song is literally about being on the train. When you are in transit itโs like a motion picture passing you byโฆstaring out the window of the MARTA train.โ
Gnarls Barkley Return For One Final Album Slated for March 2026
According to the press statement, Gnarls Barkley always intended to make a third album together. Unfortunately, โlife and other creative pursuits intervened.โ But the creative energy never faded, and the duo wanted to properly finish what they started. Finally, they made time to reconnect last year and get started on the final chapter.
Atlantaย features 13 tracks, with โPicturesโ falling in as the third song. While thereโs not much to glean from the titles just yet, they serve as interesting jumping-off points for speculation. The album opens with โTomorrow Died Todayโ, before leading into โI Amnesiaโ and โPicturesโ. Thereโs also โLine Danceโ, โTurn Your Heart Back Onโ, โLet Me Beโ, โSweet Evilโ, โBoy Geniusโ, and several others. The final closers are โSorryโ and โAccept Itโ, which definitely spark some interest in the albumโs flow.
Back in 2017, Green stated that he and Danger Mouse had a third project in the works. โWe have already started on a new [Gnarls Barkley] album,โ he toldย DJBoothย at the time. โWeโre halfway in, and we have some overtures from the other projects that may not have stood the test of time, we donโt know yet.โ
There was another update in April 2025. But as of February 2026, Gnarls Barkley are back and ready to close the book on their creative partnership the way they intended.
Gnarls Barkley โ the singer CeeLo Green backed by the producer Danger Mouse โ has returned after 18 years. โPicturesโ is a preview of โAtlanta,โ an album due March 6 thatโs billed as the duoโs final collaboration.
In โPictures,โ Green sings about memories, mortality, glimpses of growing up and the vagaries of fate among childhood friends: โOne dead, one in jail, oneโs a functioning addict.โ
A crisp beat, soothing keyboard chords and gospel-choir harmonies promise reassurance, even as the lyrics face change and loss: โPictures are the only things I get to keep,โ Green sings.
Gnarls Barkleyโs farewell names its dead, prays without expecting an answer, and rides the train until it stops. With the help of Danger Mouse, CeeLo bought enough life to fill a eulogy.
Two albums in two years, St. Elsewhere in 2006 and The Odd Couple in 2008, and then nothing. No announcement, no public split, just two people who stopped being Gnarls Barkley and went back to their own names. Danger Mouse spent the next stretch producing records for the Black Keys, Adele, A$AP Rocky, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a half-dozen others with the kind of patience that turned his credit into a stamp of dependability. CeeLo Green had โFuck You,โ five Grammys, four seasons coaching on The Voice, multiple controversies that nearly buried him, solo records, and a Goodie Mob reunion. Both continued working. Neither needed this. Last year, they agreed to finish what theyโd always called a trilogy, and Atlanta, named for the city where Green grew up and where Danger Mouse spent his teenage years at Redan High School in Stone Mountain, is that final installment.
Atlanta is not a backdrop here. On โPictures,โ CeeLo is an eighth-grader riding the MARTA alone from morning until the middle of the afternoon, kicked out of school every Friday by a principal who just told him to go. He stares out the window. He keeps score:
โOne dead, one in jail, oneโs a functioning addict.โ
Wayne is still out there somewhere. Someoneโs mom bought Mike a car. The cemeteries looked pretty from the train. The chorus rolls I just go, I just go, I just go until the train stops running, and the song doesnโt pause to grieve any particular loss because the losses are constant and they come through the window like weather. โLine Danceโ casts the city limit as nothing but a line, half party instruction, half warning about being boxed in. Life getting shorter and the deep end of the water is right there. The comfort CeeLo offers is genuine. โShawty if you happy, bitch, I just might beโ is a real concession from a person who cannot guarantee his own mood. Atlanta produced that kind of honesty, where itโs conditional, warm, and unsentimental.
The album circles questions of God and dying without settling on a position, and CeeLo does not handle that like a philosopher. โSorryโ opens with an apology and then drops the bad news: your God is never coming, weโve lost the war for peace, these are the dying days. Have fun before itโs too late, then give me a long kiss goodnight. On โAccept It,โ the closer, he goes further:
โThere ainโt gonna be no goddamn afterlife.โ
โAinโt you tired of being somebodyโs fool?,โ he asks, and then tells shiny happy people to clap their hands and give the devil a better dance while he got the chance, because heaven is out there on the dance floor tonight and this is all you get. Those two songs should be heard together. They say the same thing from slightly different distances, โSorryโ from pity, โAccept Itโ from defiance, and neither pretends the listener is going to be okay. โTurn Your Heart Back Onโ lays it out more plainly. Yesterday is dead, he wants to get so high he forgets he still has to die, heโd change it if he could but it hurts so good, and heโs staring at a television trying to cry. When the refrain hits, no oneโs happy, itโs not fair, when Iโm happy no one cares, it is not a complaint. It is a weather report. โPerfect Timeโ is the most unsettling track because it holds every option open at once:
โPlease wake me up before you go
Hurry up and wait
Now run like the wind
Make your escape
But donโt you look back or youโll turn to dust.โ
The two tracks where CeeLo strips his own history bare are โCyberbully (Yayo)โ and โBoy Genius,โ and they share a detail that hits harder for appearing in both places. The babysitter kept touching him, and now it makes sense. On โBoy Genius,โ this is part of a longer catalog. His first-grade teacher flagged something wrong, the student counselor agreed, he had arguments with his imaginary friend, he dropped out and got a job, heโs at his motherโs grave wishing theyโd laid him with her, plus his therapist says heโs making progress. โCyberbully (Yayo)โ runs the list differently. Almost on his hundred million, still thinking about killing, every line covered in yayo, uneducated but special, trading Teslas, dope in the dresser, maybe itโs the devil, maybe itโs the Lord, maybe itโs the cyborg inside him. Heโs going to do the Michael Jackson drip, then heโs at his motherโs grave again.
Danger Mouse parks the production below CeeLoโs voice and trusts the words to do the work. The arrangements recall the analog grit of the first two Gnarls Barkley records without trying to modernize them, and the spare approach is the right call for material this frank. โSweet Evilโ is the one track that might have pushed further, with CeeLo declaring himself a god in some earthly form, torn by a tug of war, then calling the whole thing a love song at the end. The instrumentation holds a steady temperature when the lyric is practically begging to overheat, and the tension between those two impulses is the best thing about it. โThe Be Be Kingโ is the albumโs kindest moment. CeeLo wants to be cheese grits and the pancake mix, the gas in your car, a good paying job, the face in the locket, the generator when the lights go out. He wants to stand with his hands in the air daring someone to pull the trigger. He wants to be compared to who he was yesterday, not anyone else. He wants you to live a little longer. It is the closest Atlanta gets to a plain-spoken declaration of love.
โLet Me Beโ pleads for quiet, and means it. The song details the party has ended, everyone left, and all that remains is a beautiful picture of an unhappy family and a person who no one understands, requesting solitude without a timeline attached. โI Amnesiaโ traps someone in a bed they canโt climb out of, suspended in sweet nothing, asking if anybody will remember them when they come back alive. The sunlight makes them sit up. โReal talk,โ CeeLo says, โdoes not have to rhyme.โ And on โTomorrow Died Today,โ the sky is raining bullets, the chemtrails look like cocaine, the acid rain will fade their colors, because only in death are we all the same. A war of words where nobody won. Heโs still staring up.
Gnarls Barkley Slam Dunks Third and Final Album โAtlantaโ: Stream It Now
Eighteen years after the second Gnarls Barkley album, "Atlanta" marks a new beginning, and an end, for the duo.
Itโs been a while. Eighteen years, give or take a few months. With the release today of Atlanta (via 10k/Atlantic Records), Gnarls Barkley makes a long-overdue, but brief, return.
The multi-Grammy Award-winning duo of CeeLo Green, the soulful vocalist, and Danger Mouse, the top-shelf producer, unleashes Atlanta, their third studio album and the followup to 2008โs The Odd Couple.
Produced by Danger Mouse and co-written with CeeLo, Atlanta marks a new beginning, and an end. Itโs said to be Gnarls Barkleyโs final album.
Atlanta features the previously-released single โPictures,โ one of 13 album tracks. Itโs a collection thatโs near-impossible to pigeonhole, a feast of gospel mashed with smart-as-a-whip R&B production, with hints of pop, hip-hop and timeless vibes.
Gnarls Barkley had a big time debut with 2006โs St. Elsewhere, which housed the era-defining smash โCrazy,โ a tune that went to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and logged nine weeks atop the official U.K. Singles Chart. St. Elsewhere peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
Next up, The Odd Couple which peaked at No. 12 on the all-genres U.S. albums tally, and gave the duo another appearance on the national singles chart with โGoing On,โ which went to No. 88.
According to a release announcing the return, the Atlanta natives had always intended to record a third album, but โlife and other creative pursuits intervened,โ before they reconnected last year and set aside some time to record this final chapter in their story.
The long break between albums wasnโt wasted. Green released four solo albums, including the 2010 title The Lady Killer which featured the hit single โForget Youโ (also known by the uncensored version โF*** You), and two LPs with his hip-hop crew Goodie Mob and appeared as a judge on The Voice.
At the same time, Danger Mouse (born Brian Joseph Burton) worked on albums by Beck, Sparklehorse, U2, the Black Keys, Norah Jones, Portugal. The Man, A$AP Rocky and many others while releasing three albums as Broken Bells with the Shinsโ James Mercer.
โLife is a movie. Thoughts are theater, emotions are entertainment, and songs are cinema,โ remarks Green on the latest, and last, Gnarls Barkley album. โGnarls is the narratorโฆ a noun even a person, place, and thing with main character energy to match. Welcome to Atlanta. Smile for the pictures.โ
Stream Atlanta below.
Gnarls Barkley ยท album ยท 2026 ยท 13 songs
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Eighteen years after the second Gnarls Barkley album, "Atlanta" marks a new beginning, and an end, for the duo.
"Pictures" - Gnarls Barkley single from new album - "Atlanta".
"Pictures", Gnarls Barkley first single to Atlanta, is out there! And it's beautiful. CeeLo & Mouse, both from Atlanta, take us on a trip to MARTA public train, in ATL. A reflective song about going and coming back, just like the duo.
You can feel the thrill and excitment of "a new adventure", but also that Gnarls Barkley vibes, that sadness hidden in CeeLo's soulful voice.
In an interview to Rolling Stone, CeeLo commented on the new song:
โโPicturesโ is like going back to square one. Itโs a full circle moment. The spirit of Gnarls Barkley is always self-discovery. The sweet, the sad, and the strange. The universe, the adventure inside of yourself.โ
โPicturesโ was inspired by Atlantaโs MARTA public train system, which the musiciansโ recalled from their younger years there in the โ90s.
"The hook of the song is literally about being on the train. When you are in transit itโs like a motion picture passing you byโฆ staring out the window of the MARTA train.โ
You can check "Pictures" official lyrics video on Gnarls Barkley's youtube channel. Atlanta is available to pre-order. here's the tracklist:
In days we will finally hear Gnarls Barkley again. A new project, 20 years after the release of St. Elsewhere. "Atlanta" is the new album, set to release in 03.06.2026 The last chapter to this wild adventure called Gnarls Barkley.
Apparently, we're back to the beginings. Back to ATL, where it all began. Are you ready?!
Only God knows, as a fan, how much have I waited for new releases. This year has been great for me, as a CeeLo Green and of course, Gnarls Barkley fan. I'm so hyped, so excited, so pleased... So thankful.
What if we had a live album, by Gnarls Barkley?! ๐ฅ Lets remember their amazing performance, back in Roskilde Festival, 2008. Photos by Martin Rosenauer. Of course, this is just a fanmade.
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Did you know?
Back in the day, some time after Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse started a new project, with James Mercer, called Broken Bells. In 2010, they released the album "The Ghost Inside".
CeeLo, being the joker that he is, immediately went on action, to release a parody of the album's single, which he called "The Ol' Sauseej", a fun, mischivous parody, full of double meanings, only to troll his band friend, Danger Mouse!
The Mouse and the Mask, 2005. Danger Mouse & MF DOOM, in an epic collab, later known as DANGER DOOM. ๐ฅ Still lit to this day! The project also featured CeeLo's voice in one track, called 'Benzie Box'.
DANGERDOOM, MF DOOM, Danger Mouse, CeeLo Green ยท THE MOUSE & THE MASK ยท Song ยท 2005
Cheat Codes - Go To Hell (feat. CeeLo Green) (Official Visualizer)
You'd like me to wait around
With my heart on a string
While you're out with some other man
Doing your little thing
Well I bet your looking hot tonight
But my dinner is getting cold
Man this same old story's getting old
Saying oh lord
Where did we go wrong
Woman
What more could you want?
I could bring you a dozen roses
I could write a love song or two
And I wish you well
But you can go to hell
'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you
'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you
'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you
Seasons change just like your mind
Thought we were evergreen
There's rock and there's a hard place
You got me in between
But I got you used to you Medusa
Turn my hear to stone
Just like that old song the thrill is gone
Saying oh lord
Where did we go wrong
Woman
What more could you want?
I could bring you a dozen roses
I could write a love song or two
And I wish you well
But you can go to hell
Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you
I could bring you a dozen roses
I could write a love song or two
And I wish you well
But you can go to hell
'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you
"Cause I'm a punk rocker, yes I am..." Reminiscing the past lives of Gnarls Barkley, our super heroes - CeeLo Green & Danger Mouse.
It's always interesting to see how much the superhero theme and cinema in general influenced CeeLo's carreer. Mouse's is not so far away too. The Odd Couple - a direct refference to cinema, but also the whole heroic plot of "Crazy". Hell, even the single "Mystery Men" is fully inspired in a super hero - full of mundane problems.
Green's passion for cinema and television is also not a secret; his 2015's mixtape - TV on the Radio - expresses it very well. But even his other mixtape, the 2010's "Stray Bullets" dedicates tracks to develop even more CeeLo's multiverse, with "Super Woman Theme Song".
What about "The Lady Killer", 2010? Also a classic Bond soundtrack. CeeLo already clarified: When he makes music, he is thinking of a score, a soundtrack, more than a song in itself.
"Like Luke Skywalker finding out who his father is, Han Solo getting frozen in carbonite, or even Jonah ending up in the belly of the whale, every hero has to be dragged into darkness before he can emerge in triumph. Your very own supernatural hero was no different."
Green, CeeLo. Everybody's Brother (p. 155).
Every hero has a theme song - CeeLo starts in the 13th track of Stray Bullets. Truth is, CeeLo is full of theme songs, soundtracks, requiems and beautiful scores. From his humble beginnings, in the Dirty South, to luxury, late days. Oh yes, Goodie Mob has also it's fair pieces of soundtrack, or even theme songs. Still Standing (1998), with the homonym track, but also the late "Father Time", from Age Against the Machine, or "Frontline", from Survival Kit... But i love to think that Goodie Mob alligns more with an antihero character, than a hero group. Our very own Not-so-Goodie-Mob.
But one thing is to pay homage to a hero, another thing is to be one. Gnarls Barkley is an alterego, an out of body experience; someone else. A duo. A hero. Crazy times call for crazy heroes. Glad we had 'em. Hoping for more soon. ๐ ๐ฅ
My heroes had the heart
To lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember
Is thinking, I want to be like them
โGnarls Barkley, โCrazyโ
Cheat Codes - Go To Hell feat. CeeLo Green (Official Music Video)
Cheat Codes just dropped a new album "Future Renaissance" and yours truly is on the track "Go To Hell." ๐ฅ Let's run this up!
NEW ALBUM "FUTURE RENAISSANCE" OUT NOW: https://lnk.to/futurerenaissance
CeeLo Green is featured in Cheat Codes' brand new album - with a video! It's nice to hear CeeLo Green again, with some pop, to take us back to "The Lady Killer" days, 2010.
