Beck - Modern Guilt
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Music Reviews of Modern Guilt
Music Review: ... is a lazy album.
Rating: 2 Stars
Modern Guilt is a lazy album - not lazy as in "laid-back," but lazy as in "did Beck spend any more time than the miserly 33-minute length of this disc on its songwriting, recording, mixing, production, and artwork?" Well . . . The songwriting structures are repetitious. The music faintly recalls a 60's style, but lacks the 60's convictions; this sounds like a lab exercise. The vocals are bland, bored, and buried beneath clichéd soundbytes. The constantly distorted drums may have worked for Beck's "two-turntables-and-a-microphone" days, but now they just sound sloppy. Artwork? Two nondescript black-and-white photos of musicians' feet and an exit sign, and ten pages of punctuation-light lyrics crammed at the bottom of otherwise white sheets. Caveat emptor these empty archives. **Music Review: One of his better releases, gets better with each listen.
Rating: 5 Stars
First off, what is with the editorial review by Ernesto Sánchez? I am positive he didn't listen to this CD at all, nor is he familiar with Beck's style. Nothing in is review has anything to do with the content or quality of the CD. Listen to the samples and you will see what I mean.
That said, I am a big fan of Beck and enjoy the different styles and approaches he takes in each outing. Modern Guilt is unique in that it combines much of his past styles in a very enjoyable way. The lyrics are memorable and thought provoking, the guitar riffs and drum beats are very cool sounding and catchy, and each song has a different yet familiar style. Also, I can't find one bad track on the CD, I like all of the tracks and never have the urge to skip during play.
Music Review: Beck Never Fails
Rating: 5 Stars
Beck's ever evolving musical nature and unending originality are unquestionable. Bringing more evidence of this to the stand is Modern Guilt, an aptly titled record for our Modern times. Throughout his career, Beck draws from an infinitesimal array of influences culminating in the unique delivery of his liquid poetry and entrancing beats and rhythms. A genuinely and truly talented artist of our time, Beck saves our modern airwaves and ears.
I could review each song, but music is a language best interpreted by the listener. With Beck, like always, each piece is much more than just notes suited with poetry. It is Beck's bottomless depth and honesty that has kept me a devoted fan for over a decade.
Modern Guilt is a fantastic album.
Music Review: brain out of gear
Rating: 2 Stars
I have almost all of Beck's CDs and I must say this is the most uninspired of the lot (not to say the worst; that honor goes to Midnight
Vultures) it sounds as if Beck accepted the first words that came into his head for lyrical content and the music behind the lyrics unsuccessfully falls somewhere between Mutations pop and half hearted experimentation .
At best, on Modern Guilt, Beck sounds like he's robbing Galaxy 500's "On Fire" album-at worst like he couldn't be bothered to improve upon first takes. When I listen to this album I can't help but want to hear songs like Nausea and Elevator Music from his last CD or put on Stereopathic Soul Manure and crank it up to 11.
Music Review: Borderline Garbage (2 stars)
Rating: 2 Stars
I'm not really sure what Beck's deal has been in recent years, but this album may be one of his most forgettable albums I've ever heard. The album is so spacey it feels pretentiously apathetic. You can barely understand most of Beck's distorted mumbling on this record. Danger Mouse has come through with some of the most bland and least engaging production I've heard from him yet. At times, it feels like a mediocre Radiohead rip-off. Beck used to be one of my absolute favorite artists; it pains me to hear him release such an uninspired effort. If this album isn't proof that his hey-day has long passed, I don't know what is.