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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Information,” Beck left his most recent producers, the Dust Brothers, behind to work with Nigel Godrich, whose previous credits include Radiohead’s “OK Computer” and Beck’s outstanding “Sea Change...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Beck, "The Information" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...vocally Beck is more than up to the challenge of flowing from bass and drum grooves into atmospheric vocal melodies and back again...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Beck, "The Information" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...there’s still the feeling that Beck is reliant on his old tricks. Opening track “Elevator Music” is pure “Odelay”-style funk, featuring Beck’s signature off-key rhyming and a raw drum beat. On tracks like this one Beck seems afraid to stretch out, sticking with what he’s done before and throwing in some digital sounds for decoration...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Beck, "The Information" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Movie Theme,” a solid combination of synthesized strings and soft-spoken vocal lines reminiscent of “Sea Change.” Other highlights include “Nausea,” built on a raw acoustic guitar and bass riff, with Beck doing his best Brit-pop vocal imitation. “Strange Apparition” is loveable piano-driven ’90s pop with a nice half-time breakdown at the end of the track...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Beck, "The Information" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...album’s final track, an extended medley of trippy melodies and off-kilter vocals and spoken word, Beck says “If the soul is a symptom, the condition is you.” Beck’s vocals offer a little of something for everyone—disillusionment and indictment of society (or something) for the doomsdayers, and random bits of absurdity for those who share Beck’s sense of humor...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review: Beck, "The Information" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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