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...long, sprawling set comprised of two movements, the first 17 minutes and the second 28 minutes. The result was a sprawling, heavily-reverbed dreamscape that alternated from sounding atmospherically surreal, virtuosically psychedelic, and vaguely rockish...

Author: By Jim Fingal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animal Collective Draws Herds | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...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, you don't even bother going there. But the Dust Brothers encourage experimentation, and they definitely encourage a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beck: You'll Never Guess What He's Up to This Time | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...played and welcome albums that has brought the late guitarist to the crest of his popularity. With splendid backing, and complementary arrangements by Don Sebesky and Eumir Deodato, Wes plucks another musical honor for himself. His double-octave runs and honest, single-note phrases illuminate such tunes as the rockish Wind Song, The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener, Coin' On to Detroit, and convey an especially sweet sadness in Georgia On My Mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Straw Hat | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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