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| Ew |
 On his gleefully bizarro 1994 breakout single ''Loser,'' a then-24-year-old Beck Hansen described time as ''a piece of wax fallin' on a termite/Who's chokin' on the splinters.'' Lines like that would establish the boho-hobo rocker as a sort of Salvador Dalí of sound, a man for whom the sensical and banal were strictly anathema. Today, even as a married father nearing 40, he has managed to remain as musically idiosyncratic as ever. But on Modern Guilt, a simmering cauldron of postmillennial tension helmed by musician/DJ/producer Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Brian Burton), time is no longer an abstract for silly wordplay; it's a remorseless force of nature. ''I've been walking on these streets so long,'' Beck intones hoarsely on the rhythmic, loping ''Volcano....full text |
| Allmusic |
| At first glance, it seems like the teaming of Beck and Danger Mouse is a perfect pairing of postmodern pranksters, as neither musician has shaken the first impression he's made: for most, Beck is still seen as that ironic Loser, trawling through pop culture's junk heap, while Danger Mouse is the maverick of The Grey Album, the mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z that reads like a joke but doesn't play like one. Close listening to either man's body of work easily dispels these notions, as Beck has spent as much time mining the murky melancholia of Mutations as he has crafting neon freakouts like Midnite Vultures. He's made a career bouncing from one extreme to the other, occasionally revisiting the cut 'n' paste collage that would have seemed like a natural fit for the sample-centric Danger Mouse, but when he partnered with Danger Mouse in 2008, Beck's pendulum was swinging away from the Odelay aesthetic, as he spent two records on the lighter side, thereby dictating a turn toward the dark. ...full text |
| Guardian |
| Remember when Beck was the most intriguing counter-cultural figure in American music? But the trailblazer often finds himself on his own. So Midnite Vultures, Guero and The Information, while sounding like no one other than Beck, also offered little more than what he had dazzled us with before. Now, with a new record deal, Beck has undergone a much-needed reboot. 'Orphans' evokes the freewheeling spirit of the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle; the chug of 'Gamma Ray' purrs along an autobahn; 'Chemtrails' is an aptly titled puff of spectral Floydisms. On the title track, meanwhile, producer Danger Mouse strikes more production gold, providing the perfect backdrop for one of Beck's most beautiful vocals in years....full text |
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