Beck - Modern Guilt
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Artist: BeckEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-07-08
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Orphans
- Gamma Ray
- Chemtrails
- Modern Guilt
- Youthless
- Walls
- Replica
- Soul of A Man
- Profanity Prayers
- Volcano
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Free Music Review: Modern Primitive
Hit: 4 Stars
This album makes me wonder what Sea Change would have sounded like if Beck had a late mood swing and remixed it. Like that great album, Beck is in a foul mood again, and looking at the world through a slacker-adult's cocked eye. "Youthless" is a prime example. A mournful song at the core, Danger Mouse clutters it with so much business that it's difficult to catch the underlying depression inherent in the lyric. The final song, the slow building "Volcano," has him creeping closer to a deadly fire, but claiming all he wants to do is "warm his old bones."
The first three songs flow like a suite, with "Orphans," "Chemtrails" and "Gamma Rays" (with its cool flute samples) playing out like an existential mid-life crisis. The old Mellow Gold "Loser" isn't just asking you to kill him, he's contemplating what comes after. There are "sinking boats" and "swallowed by evil" and "feeling so cold when I'm at home" all sucking you into his blackest place.
At the same time, the rat-a-tat production of Danger Mouse leads one to wonder just how wild Beck must have been about Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere, because "Crazy" seems to have informed a great deal of "Modern Guilt." Beck's guilt may be old hat, but the sounds are pure new century. The title track and "Soul of a Man" are both peppy and ominous, ala "Crazy," with "Profanity Prayers" hitting fever pitch before "Volcano" slows things at the finish.
With almost 15 years since "Loser" put this free associating jester on the map, Beck has now eased into a graceful middle age. "Modern Guilt" is a thoroughly adult record, a folk rant for the new century.
Modern Guilt Poster
Beck's new album Modern Guilt, produced with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, will be released July 8, 2008.The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single "Timebomb", Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has written since the prolific stretch that produced 2005's platinum Guero and 2006's universally acclaimed The Information.
Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor. Musically, the album's ten tracks vacillate between economy and experimentation, hybrid and pop classicism, while consistently manifesting Beck and Danger Mouse's shared interest in psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and orchestration.
Beck is about to embark on a tour of the UK and Europe, followed by a number of US headline and festival appearances, culminating in Beck's biggest hometown headline show to date, September 20, 2008 at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Modern Guilt is the tenth studio album by musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Beck. Modern Guilt features two contributions by Cat Power and co-produced by Danger Mouse. The hit track 'Chemtrails' is a genre-bending tour de force that showcases Beck and producer Danger Mouse's shared affection for late '60s Psych-Pop. The album releases on July 8, 2008, his 38th birthday.
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