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...Stars Beck has never been accused of pigeon-holing himself; throughout his career he has delivered multiple sounds and textures with each new album. Last year’s delivery, “Guero,” was met with mixed reviews—some thought Beck had run out of innovative ideas and was forced to revisit the sounds of his previous albums, while others called the album not a mere re-visitation but a fresh and creative re-invention...
...tribute to the lo-fi gamer aesthetic in their music. Hella start their debut album (2002's masterful "Hold Your Horse Is") with an 8-bit intro, before launching into their more familiar noise-rock stylings. Even Beck released an EP of 8-bit style remixes of his 2005 "Guero" album, borrowing the Nintendocolor aesthetic of underground video artists Paper Rad for his "GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes)" music video.So what is this "Nintendo music," really? Who were these mysterious video game composers, who determined the sonic environment of millionsof American teenagers from the other side of the world...
...shout-outs to the subtle krauted-out brilliance that was “Black Tambourine.”The weirdest part is that Beck had no dearth of remixes sitting around—he’s already put out three remix EPs from “Guero,” and special-edition versions of the album had a handful of retooled tracks. Most of the best tracks on this album (Octet, Boards of Canada, and 8-Bit) have already been released here, and some better “Guero” remixes didn’t make...
...show managed to be everything his March album, “Guero,” should have been: Where the album felt like a lazy rehash of Beck’s tried-and-true genre-hopping, the show was a post-post-post-post-modern regurgitation of a regurgitation of a million musical genres, spewed out with equal parts wild abandon and focused control. It was a post-Scientology, ultra-relaxed Beck doing an amazing impression of Beck. And he knew how to rock a body...
...from our teenage years (besides the inexorable process of entropy). And so what if the new stuff isn’t revolutionary? If it’s as thrillingly fun as “Beverly Hills,” you’ve got nothing to complain about, guero. And if it’s as dull as the new Beck outing, you can always challenge yourself by listening to that Nigerian stuff for a while. But whenever you want to hear your hero’s voice, just secretly pop in his new material for a quickie. I mean...