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Artist: BeckEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Elevator Music
- Think I'm In Love
- Cellphone's Dead
- Strange Apparition
- Soldier Jane
- Nausea
- New Round
- Dark Star
- We Dance Alone
- No Complaints
- 1000 BPM
- Motorcade
- The Information
- Movie Theme
- The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide Exoskeleton
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Guero had a great vibe to it, nothing compared to anything else in his catalogue, but it now seems Beck has done everything he is capable of doing right, and this album, believe me, finds him surfing the sine waves of total mediocrity. This, surely, is a sendoff album much like Neil Young's Landing On Water. Still, this is worse than that for many reasons. Beck has, once and for all, become completely redundant and irreverent to musical art. These songs, besides the obvious couple gems, sound like they were made in ten minutes. Time between LP's is stretching his capabilities. I think he could have put out a great EP, but come on! this one was phoned in. And so has much of his career after Mutations. He has mutated alright, right down into the Bobby D phase 1984. It's a lot of Beck to ingest with all the B sides and deluxers floating around, and we know this isn't Miles Davis, hardly anyone but Beck is REALLY involved. He has written too many songs, and with a surrealistic style somewhat tested on Sea Change, he doesn't have a whole lot of paths to take AT THE MOMENT. Lucky we got Guero out of him, though, part of me thinks this is still just kind of a send off album. I would truly love if he did some type of sequel to One Foot.... to something more intelligent, cynical and real. Anyway you have it, it is Beck's time to wait a while, do something worthwhile when the right time presents itself, like NIN, or risk becoming obscure nonsense and primitive stupidity like Weezer. It is not always cool to just shovel all the **** in your closet and then expect people to pay for it. This album is a total torrent monster for a reason.....
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On The Information, Beck Hansen is seriously bummed out. Not that he sounds it as much as he did on 2002's laconic, Fred Neil-worshipping Sea Change. Technology and stuff, and the way it gets in the way of human interaction, is the subtext if not the full-on concept at play here. Recorded with art-rock anal-retentive Nigel Goodrich at the helm, work began on this album not long after Sea Change but was shelved for a few years while Mr. Hansen made 2005's Guero with the Dust Brothers. Unsurprisingly, it sounds a bit like both of those. The trappings of minimalist pop, fuzzy folk, click-hop, hip-hop, baroque psychedelia, and funky pop are to be found on this endearing release. Like Jean Cocteau or David Bowie, Beck is an artistic chameleon whose greatest gift is knowing which artists to borrow from, and when. The cover artwork consists of stickers that you can arrange however you like, which perhaps appeals too much to your own nostalgic/retro, "Trapper Keeper" sensibilities. And yet, it's kind of awesome, something you can't believe has never been done before. Much like the album it adorns. --Mike McGonigalHailed as "a deeply natural songwriter" (THE NEW YORKER) who "defies expectations in his own way" (TIME) and "Gen X's most famous absurdist" (BLENDER), BECK is the single most inventive and eclectic figure to emerge from the '90s alternative revolution. In an era obsessed with junk culture, Beck seamlessly blends pop, folk, hiphop, indie/underground and electronica with the end result being an authentically uncategorizeable musical style that nevertheless has sold millions of records and scored multiple Grammy awards.
Three years in the making, THE INFORMATION is the album Beck began work on in 2003 with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead's OK Computer, Kid A; Beck's Sea Change, Mutations) and finally completed this year once Guero's massive success and encore touring engagements, as well as Nigel's other commitments, were fulfilled.
THE INFORMATION is comprised of 15 songs and a DVD featuring homemade videos for each of the 15 songs shot in-studio during the actual sessions. The artwork for The Information is either non-existent or infinite, depending on one's point of view. Each copy will come in a blank package with one of four collectible sticker sheets specially designed by European and American artists and representative of the unique Beck aesthetic. The stickers will give every Beck fan the opportunity to participate in the creative process by designing his or her own one of a kind CD cover.
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