 Travis Woods - 08/13/2008  If the short history of rock music is any indication, shapeshifting pop prisms like Beck nearly always hit an impasse midway through their varied care...
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| Bryan Sanchez - 07/16/2008 When Beck made his most gorgeous album to date, 2002?s Sea Change, he was able to beautifully shape music that spoke volumes about the album?s unifyin...
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| Tim Burrows - 07/14/2008 At a party recently a Canadian friend was articulating his horror upon hearing that Beck Hansen, once the epitome of post-modern cool, had joined Tom ...
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| Conrad Amenta - 07/11/2008 Poor, poor Beck. At times saddled with an expectation for an almost Dylanesque (yeah, I used it) insight into the cultural zeitgeist—in his case...
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| Daniel Smith - 07/09/2008 A pulsing bassline introduces the album's opening track, "Orphans," and then a few seconds in a tinny, distant piano and a hauntingly eerie synth line...
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| MELISSA MAERZ - 07/09/2008 Welcome to Beck's midlife spiritual crisis. As he nears his 40th birthday, his hair has grown as long as the Maharishi's. The BFFs on his MySpace Top ...
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| Jason P. Woodbury - 07/08/2008 Over the course of his strange, winding career, Beck has never been afraid to call in radically different producers to help him augment and shape his ...
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| Scott McDonald - 07/08/2008 When news hit that Danger Mouse would be involved in Beck's latest offering, Modern Guilt, I got pretty excited. Our favorite 'Loser' has been known t...
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| JOSH MODELL - 07/08/2008 Over the past decade, Beck has wrestled with two fairly distinct musical personas, giving each one entire albums to gestate: There's the hip-hop-embra...
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| Dan Wale - 07/08/2008 Whatâ??s consistent about Beck, or at least has been, is his unpredictability. Like Radiohead, his worst album by a margin was his tentative fir...
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| Mikael Wood - 07/08/2008 Because his records so rarely sound like anyone's but his own, it's easy to forget how much Beck thrives on collaborating with name-brand producers li...
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| Jason Draper - 07/08/2008 With Beck having reissued "Odelay" as a deluxe edition in March, after two years in the making "Modern Guilt"'s well-staged "rush release" (he's gone ...
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| STACEY ANDERSON - 07/08/2008 It's a known statistic that every ten seconds someone from California sings a song about cars. And Beck Hansen is not immune. "These ice caps melting ...
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| Erin Chandler - 07/08/2008 What can you say about Beck that hasn't already been said before After being teased non-stop about the arrival of Beck's latest Danger Mouse infused ...
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