Beck-Modern Guilt-CD-FLAC-2008-FORSAKEN
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Artist : Beck
Album : Modern Guilt Label : Interscope Genre : Alternative Source : CD Street Date : 2008-07-08 Quality : 910 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 230.04 MB
Time : 33:38 min Url : http://www.beck.com
1. Orphans 3:15 2. Gamma Ray 2:56 3. Chemtrails 4:40 4. Modern Guilt 3:14 5. Youthless 2:59 6. Walls 2:22 7. Replica 3:25 8. Soul of a Man 2:36 9. Profanity Prayers 3:43 10. Volcano 4:28
At first glance, it seems like the teaming of Beck and Danger
Mouse is a perfect pairing of postmodern pranksters, as neither
musician has shaken the first impression hes made: for most,
Beck is still seen as that ironic Loser, trawling through pop
cultures junk heap, while Danger Mouse is the maverick of The
Grey Album, the mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z that reads like
a joke but doesnt play like one. Close listening to either mans
body of work easily dispels these notions, as Beck has spent as
much time mining the murky melancholia of Mutations as he has
crafting neon freakouts like Midnite Vultures. Hes made a career
bouncing from one extreme to the other, occasionally revisiting
the cut n paste collage that would have seemed like a natural
fit for the sample-centric Danger Mouse, but when he partnered
with Danger Mouse in 2008, Becks pendulum was swinging away from
the Odelay aesthetic, as he spent two records on the lighter
side, thereby dictating a turn toward the dark. As it happens,
this is Danger Mouses true forte, as his productions have almost
uniformly been dark, impressionistic pop-noir, whether hes
working with Damon Albarn on the Gorillaz or the Good, the Bad &
the Queen, or collaborating with Cee-Lo as Gnarls Barkley (whose
fluke hit “Crazy” had nasty rumbling undercurrents) or even
blues-rockers the Black Keys. So, he turns out to be a perfect
fit for Beck, just perhaps not in the way that many might expect,
although the title of their album Modern Guilt should be a big
tip-off that these ten tracks are hardly all sunshine and roses.
Compared to the waves of grief on Sea Change, Modern Guilt trips
easily, as this is a deft tapestry of drum loops, tape splices,
and chugging guitars pitched halfway between new wave and Sonic
Youth. This may not brood but its impossible to deny its
heaviness, either in its tone or its lyrics. Beck peppers Modern
Guilt with allusions to jets, warheads, suicide, all manners of
modern maladies, and if the words dont form coherent pictures,
the lines that catch the ear create a vivid portrait of unease, a
vibe that Danger Mouse mirrors with his densely wound yet spare
production. As on his work with Albarn and the Black Keys, Danger
Mouse doesnt impose his own aesthetic as much as he finds a way
to make it fit with Becks, so everything here feels familiar,
whether its the swinging 60s spy riff on “Gamma Ray,” the rangy
blues on “Soul of Man,” the stiff shuffle of the title track, or
the thick and gauzy “Chemtrails,” which harks back to the
sluggish, narcotic psychedelia of Mutations. Danger Mouse assists
not only with execution but with focus, pulling in Modern Guilt
at just over half an hour, which is frankly a relief after the
unending sprawl of The Information and Guero. Its leanness is one
of the greatest attributes of Modern Guilt, as every song stays
as long as it needs to, then lingers behind in memory, leaving
behind a collection of echoes and impressions. If anything,
Modern Guilt may be just a little bit too transient, as it
doesnt dig quite as deep as its subjects might suggest, but
thats also par for the course for both Beck and Danger Mouse:
they tend to prefer feel to form. Here, they deliver enough
substance and style to make Modern Guilt an effective dosage of
21st century paranoia.
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