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| Music,
Graham Bower and Martin Algesten,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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Beck is back, with more of the same eccentric and ecclectic mix of sounds. But this time he pushes it further than ever before. The lurid and grotesque album sleeve will give you some idea of just how far Beck wants to go.
Adding eighties electro, and lascivious prince-inspired falsettos to his musical lexicography, while never venturing far from his country-inspired banjo roots, Beck shows skant regard for musical tradition. Instead, he explores disonance and tones that are not always streamlined with the harmonics - like swallowing a carrot sideways.
Where Beck's voice was flat and monotonal in previous albums, here he wrestles his voice to the limit - and at times you hear it squeek.
Midnite Vultures teeters just on the right side of a comedy album, (think Divine Comedy). You sense a wry smile on his face as Beck croons "I want to get with you and your sister, I think her name is Debra" in the Prince spoofing "Debra". Who can blame him? Doesn't everyone want entice a lady into their Hyundai every once in a while?
Beck is a true original, and with Midnite Vultures, he once again takes on the depressing world of AOR (Adult Oriented Rock), and shows them what's what.
Geffen
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