“Beck is not one for repeating himself. Each record of his 12-album, 25-year career brings something a little bit different to the table – while remaining distinctly Beck. 1996’s ‘Odelay’ was the beer-chugging party starter, 2002’s ‘Sea Change’ saw him get dead serious and orchestral, and on 2008’s ‘Modern Guilt’, the multi-instrumentalist dabbled with filthy garage-rock. But on his new poptastic a”
“Beck has long been lauded as a shape-shifting musical chameleon, but even transcendent, genre-hopping geniuses hit a wall at some point — and, frankly, he did. From the mid 2000s onwards, most of Beck's albums have repeated earlier sounds and formulas: 2005's Guero fused the samples and worldly grooves of Odelay and Mutations into one LP; 2006's The Information felt like a sampler plate of everyth”
“As rudimentary an approach as it might seem to his impressively varied back catalogue, there remains a school of thought that, in the popular imagination, there are two Becks – Party Beck, and Sad Beck. The latter released ‘Morning Phase’, the spiritual successor to his breakup masterpiece ‘Sea Change’, in 2014. The former was supposed to put out his own album soon afterwards, but never did, perha”
“Beck’s 13th album is his most overtly pop record, one filled with sunshine and sadness, but feels connected to little more than a good idea.”
“Beck cribs from those who used to look for him for inspiration on Colors”
“Beck's latest album explores the bland limits of unoriginal, sanitized, millennial pop.”
