Beck‘s last album, Guero (not counting the album of remixes that came after it), was a smorgasboard of so-so songs with a few flashes of genius.
According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine (in what must be the longest unbroken paragraph published this week), Beck’s new album The Information is significantly better than that.
There’s a greater sense of craft here and while craft isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Beck, it’s what happens when an eccentric sticks around for over a decade: they turn pro. They’ve done their exploring and now they’re learning how to apply what they’ve discovered. … Like a picture where you have to stare intently to find the hidden item buried in a seas of colored dots, it can be far too easy on The Information to look at the individual dots and not see the big picture – but at least here the dots are interesting in and of themselves. And if you give it time, The Information eventually reveals itself as Beck’s tightest, most purposeful album yet.
A shout-out to Josh Hurst for the alert.
Hey, and it comes with stickers to plaster on the cover!
I think Guero is his most accomplished collection to date and am super excited to see what he’s created this time.
Can Mr. Morehead cite some examples as to the “elaborate measures” this presidency has undergone to censor free speech?
This is what I meant the few times I have posted about magazines like Paste and others, in music that have a liberal bias.
Christian or not you have to be liberal. Would Paste or other hip leading edge journal liked the chicks a few years ago??? Of course not, they don’t like country music because hicks are too conservative and they claim the music is bad.
I am not a Bush supporter and I am also against the war in Iraq but when has Bush censored free speech? The fans of the chicks censored them using their free speech.
BTW.. I subscribe to Paste and don’t mean to pick on them because I have learned about so many great artits from Paste including OTR.
as a conservative and not an Ideologue I don’t care of the don’t agree with me on politics.
Marty
And isn’t it an exercise of free speech to tell someone: Shut up and sing! Heck, it’s even an exercise of free speech to be a real jerk and tell someone they aren’t a patriot.
One thing I’ve wondered about. The movie was called THE DIXIE CHICKS: SHUT UP AND SING when I saw it at Toronto (here’s my review). But for its US release, it’s been SHUT UP AND SING.
I guess they’re still “box office poison.”