Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask: Deluxe Edition [2LP]

Reprint of the hugely successful collaborative album between super producer Danger Mouse and underground rap legend MF DOOM. The album features notable guest spots from Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah and a pre-Gnarls Barkley, CeeLo Green.

Lex Records has a history of lavish packaging but this remains one of the lushest sleeves in the catalogue. Design by EHQuestionmark, the outer sleeve is made from thick translucent textured plastic with DOOM’s mask printed on the cover, and mouse ears on each side of the mask forming a pattern that looks like a Rorschach test (a technique reused in another Danger Mouse project six months later). The inner sleeves, visible through the outer at first glance pattern based on an Ishihara test, but inside the circles in the pattern are tiny icons depicting different disasters - climate change, acid rain, holy war, nuclear leaks.