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BECK - The Information
| The Independent |
| For his new album, Beck decided to have what might be called an interactive CD cover, in that it comes packaged in a white sleeve accompanied by a sheet of stick-on symbols and images with which the listener can create their own unique sleeve design. It's an idea that echoes the way he makes the music on the CD, picking and choosing from a range of sonic images and combining them to see how agreeable a design he can make with them....full text |
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| AV Club |
| Beck has trafficked in strangeness and opacity for so long that he's now able to surprise just by saying what he means. Two tracks into The Information, listeners will hit a song called "Think I'm In Love" that's about exactly what its title suggests, as Beck sings from the position of someone who thinks he's in love, but is forced to admit, "it makes me kind of nervous to say so." That vulnerability resurfaces on "Movie Theme," in which a lush, Eno-like soundscape gives way to lines like "carry my heart like a soldier with a hand grenade."...full text |
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| Jam! |
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Every time we get a new Beck disc, we think it can't possibly be kookier than the last one. And every time we are wrong. Including this time. True to form, Beck's ninth CD The Information (in stores Tuesday) is yet another twisted, meandering journey to the freaky centre of the musical chameleon's mind....full text |
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