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Tracks like the opener “E-Pro,” “Qué Onda Guero,” and “Hell Yes” flash back to good old danceable Beck à la Midnite Vultures or Odelay, while the middle of the album is largely an extension of the pendular, string-heavy sound of Sea Change. Since Beck’s previous work has ranged from very good to brilliant, however, these new renditions of older stylistic motifs are far from unwelcome...
Tracks like the opener “E-Pro,” “Qué Onda Guero,” and “Hell Yes” flash back to good old danceable Beck à la Midnite Vultures or Odelay, while the middle of the album is largely an extension of the pendular, string-heavy sound of Sea Change. Since Beck’s previous work has ranged from very good to brilliant, however, these new renditions of older stylistic motifs are far from unwelcome...
...really play it much anymore it made me familiar with all the tools I would need to teach myself guitar and bass and to start writing music. The first time I remember being excited about music was in middle school. I went to a Beck concert in sixth grade. Odelay had just come out, and I really couldn’t believe what was going on: it was just a circus with DJs and disco balls, guys in capes, even the Cardigans were there, and Beck just shrugging it all off. I just thought: this is so cool. That...
...full length Guero) is singularly devoted to the noise of obsolescent gaming technology. The rainbow electronics and 8-bit rhythms back Mr. Hansen’s characteristic non-sequiturs, just like the chaotic but impeccably-produced sounds of his past ventures into noisy, guitar-driven rock (Odelay) and funk-rooted, accessible but left-field jams (Midnite Vultures...
...must be said that for his as-yet-untitled album, due out in February 2005, Beck is going back not to any single previous sound but to all of them. Assisting him are John King and Mike Simpson, the production duo known as the Dust Brothers, who oversaw Odelay, Beck's 1996 masterpiece (as well as the Beastie Boys' masterpiece Paul's Boutique and Hanson's admittedly less masterly masterpiece MMMBop). "All producers have their own proclivities or different tastes," says Beck. "I've worked with certain people who hate rock music, so anything that's rockish...