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Artist: Beck
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

94 reviews
Sales Rank: 229

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 602517754416
EAN: 0602517754416
ASIN: B0019GAOI2

Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Tracks:

•	Orphans
•	Gamma Ray
•	Chemtrails
•	Modern Guilt
•	Youthless
•	Walls
•	Replica
•	Soul of A Man
•	Profanity Prayers
•	Volcano

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Editorial Reviews:

People en Español
In the last few years, Beck has freely sailed the seas of electronic and alternative music, but he is now back on land with Modern Guilt, an album that gravitates mostly toward electronic music and that, unfortunately, only has a couple of songs that really stand out ("Modern Guilt," "Orphans"). The problem has nothing to do with the fact that this CD is more electronic than acoustic. The sound is poor, and it sounds as if Beck were actually singing out of a barrel. Also, the beat doesn't change from one song to the next, and if you don't listen carefully to each song, you could not tell when tracks change. Despite Beck being one of the most creative and versatile musicians in recent years, the songs of this album have no depth. Let's just hope that Beck surprises with his next. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol

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En los ultimos anos, Beck ha navegado libremente por las aguas de las musica electronica y la alternativa, ahora esta regreso al mundo de la musica con Modern Guilt, un disco que se inclina mas hacia la musica electronica y que desgraciadamente solo tiene un par de canciones que se destacan como "Modern Guilt" y "Orphans." Y el problema no tiene nada que ver con el hecho de que sea un disco mas electronico que acustico, el sonido del disco es muy pobre, pareciera que Beck esta cantando dentro de una cubeta, y el beat no parece cambiar de una cancion a la otra. Si no se pone extrema atencion a cada cancion no se dara cuenta del momento en que cambian los tracks. Si bien Beck es uno de los musicos mas creativos y versatiles de los ultimos anos hay que decir que este es un disco en el que los temas carecen de profundidad. Esperemos que Beck realmente nos sorprenda con su siguiente produccion. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol )

Amazon.com
Beck's new album Modern Guilt, produced with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, will be released July 8, 2008.

The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single "Timebomb", Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has written since the prolific stretch that produced 2005's platinum Guero and 2006's universally acclaimed The Information.

Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor. Musically, the album's ten tracks vacillate between economy and experimentation, hybrid and pop classicism, while consistently manifesting Beck and Danger Mouse's shared interest in psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and orchestration.

Beck is about to embark on a tour of the UK and Europe, followed by a number of US headline and festival appearances, culminating in Beck's biggest hometown headline show to date, September 20, 2008 at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Album Description
Modern Guilt is the tenth studio album by musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Beck. Modern Guilt features two contributions by Cat Power and co-produced by Danger Mouse. The hit track 'Chemtrails' is a genre-bending tour de force that showcases Beck and producer Danger Mouse's shared affection for late '60s Psych-Pop. The album releases on July 8, 2008, his 38th birthday.

Customer Reviews: Read 89 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Look, it's a Beck CD, the 2008 one November 13, 2008
Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States)
Gamma Ray is a song that I haven't been able to get out of my head. Yep, another Beck earworm. Anyway, this is a another solid Beck album. That means you have some of the best song hooks possible, a bunch of different musical influences, some songs which are great radio fodder, and some that are seemingly pointless. Beck, to me, hits about the same on each album. 1/3 great songs, 1/3 perfectly fine songs, 1/3 less brilliant songs. But he does that album after album, without fail. And even the least useful of the songs are novel and interesting at least once. He's a bleedin' genius.

5 out of 5 stars

Back to the Roots October 22, 2008
J. Bluhm (New York)
This album gets back to what is great about Beck. I was a bit sketptical after "the Information", but this is an amzing album that rivals any modern rock I have in my library. Great grab, and listen to "The Orphan", "Gamma Ray" and the titled track "Modern Guilt"... amazing.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Groovy Sound October 21, 2008
G. Locke (Los Angeles, CA USA)
This one is a winner. The flow of the album as a whole is entertaining. I purchased 4 cd's and this by far is the top out of them. Although I have enjoyed Beck in the past, this album has made me a believer.
A must have! It's getting dominant rotation in the car.

5 out of 5 stars

Beck's First Mature Album October 15, 2008
J. Fowler (Richmond, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

It's been a fun ride since Beck's earlier strange, exotic meanderings from folk to hard core to funk to noise blow out experiments and his mellow acoustic pit stops. But Beck has finally settled down into a real groove, thanks to his Danger Mouse collaboration, into a consistent sound that is the apotheosis of his previous work. Lyrically, it is as mature and insightful as Sea Change, but a lot more fun. There is still word play but hardly the out-of-left-field surreal imagery he's whipped out in the Odelay or Midnite Vulture days, but worry not; there are still plenty of creative juxtapositions to remind you that, yes, it's Beck. Stand out tracks: the old school rock and roll of 'Gamma Ray', the psychedelia of 'Chemtrails', the electronic funk of 'Youthless', the glitch-inspired 'Replica' and the immensely beautiful 'Volcano'. Beck is aging gracefully and it's good for music lovers.

3 out of 5 stars

just ok October 13, 2008
Tony (Chicago, IL USA)
as a big Beck fan, I gotta say I was slightly disappointed. not a lot of hits on here. just ok. seems like Beck's every other CD is good. this is not as good as The Information but better than Midnite Vultures.

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