Album Review: Triumphant salvo of old-school hip hop from Danger Mouse & Black Thought

Cheat Codes has both veterans dipping into their early influences, and rifling their contact books to secure guest slots from the likes of Michael Kiwanuka and A$AP Rocky, as well as a poignant turn from the late MF Doom 

Danger Mouse and Black Thought: Cheat Codes.  

★★★★☆

Danger Mouse’s Brian Burton has clocked up a lot of miles since he broke through with 2004’s the Grey Album – an audacious mash-up of the Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album that became a turn-of-the-millennium sensation (when mash-ups were the zeitgeist personified).