Beck - Modern Guilt


Wikipedia:
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970[4]) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck.
The four-time platinum artist rose to underground popularity with his early works, which combined social criticism with musical and lyrical experimentation. He first earned wider public attention for his breakthrough single "Loser", a 1994 hit. Beck is known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles.


Review:
Rate:7.0 on pitchfork.com
On his tour behind 2006's The Information, Beck and his band were accompanied by a troupe of marionette doppelgängers. Projected onto a big screen, the dot-eyed puppets mimicked the group with uncanny accuracy; if Beck triumphantly raised his hand during "Devil's Haircut", his counterpart quickly followed. As the distance between concert DVDs and concerts themselves continues to dwindle, the puppet scheme was a winning example of spontaneous, analog cleverness. It was also a crafty bit of outsourcing. The cute figurines provided much of the night's visual entertainment while offering a distraction from Beck's increasingly uninvolved performances. Since the famed stops on his Odelay tour more than a decade ago, he's become a static shell of his former break-dancing, bed-humping self. Similarly, while Beck has gotten darker and more apocalyptic, he's tried to temper his direness with upbeat, counter-punch production from the Dust Brothers, Nigel Godrich, and now, Danger Mouse. Though Modern Guilt is more direct and consistent than his last two scattershot LPs, it also finds the disillusioned L.A. hippie struggling to balance his deathly outlook with his more crowd-pleasing inclinations.
You can read the rest at pitchfork.
I can tell you it is a great album...a little bit different from the usual Beck.




Tracklist:

01 - Orphans.mp3
02 - Gamma Ray.mp3
03 - Chemtrails.mp3
04 - Modern Guilt.mp3
05 - Youthless.mp3
06 - Walls.mp3
07 - Replica.mp3
08 - Soul of a Man.mp3
09 - Profanity Prayers.mp3
10 - Volcano.mp3


Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: Alternative rock
Styles: anti-folk, electronic music, alternative hip-hop


Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy