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...Earlier this year, Bloc Party put out a sliced-and-diced “Silent Alarm,” Death From Above 1979 gave the thumbs-up to a supefluous retooling of their last jaunt, and now, everyone’s favorite genius-posing-as-a-poseur, Beck, has jumped on the remixwagon. The results are tepid, at best.“Guero” was unjustly derided. It was a grower. It had to be seen in all its aspects before it could be properly understood, and was shot down by the critical establishment (the ever-prescient Crimson excepted...
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...Mariachi singer clears his throat. Beck settles back, to await the crying of lot 49. Bastardized Pynchon, this video is—The end is near, there are forty thousand secrets, and wouldn’t you know it? It turns out the Lord speaks some guttermouthed L.A. Spanglish dialect...
...objective about this guy—he altered the course of my life back in the day. And in that day, he and Mark Romanek made a video for “Devil’s Haircut,” which featured a similar concept—Beck walks around the city, and then in the last 30 seconds, we revisit all the key shots and see close-ups of secret government agents spying...
...back then, Beck looked cocky and stupid, wearing his cowboy boots and holding a ghetto blaster. There was a sense that we were supposed to be worried for him. He wasn’t in on the conspiracy. Now he’s an established artist, and a Scientologist. He’s on the inside of something, he’s got faith...