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My early take on the new Beck album, Guero:
It's good. So far my favorite track is "Earthquake Weather," which has
a lithe and groovy chorus not unlike Milton Nascimento, except that
Nascimento?s falsetto is all ethereal and shit and Beck?s is all goofy
and stuff. Beck seems to have recovered from his breakup (snooze!) and
is back with producers the Dust Brothers. "Earthquake" features
clavinet (Wailers more than Stevie Wonder), scratching, acoustic
guitar, fuzz guitar, large-rumped bass, electric piano, lots of
atmospheric junk. Also it features three of Beck's singing voices
(low and "sexy," mid-range and sincere, girly). Nearly ten years after Odelay,
something about this guy?s pastiche still suggests a new model for rock
dudes, even if, according to most or all of the evidence, the Beck
model isn?t terribly useful to anyone who isn?t Beck. For a full take
on Guero, see Julianne Shepherd's review in next week's City Pages.
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