COLORS
| Beck
COLORS
Colors is the thirteenth overall studio album by American musician Beck, released on October 13, 2017, by Capitol Records.The album was recorded between 2013 and 2017, with Beck producing alongside Greg Kurstin. The album's earliest single, "Dreams", was released in June 2015, while three more singles ("Wow", "Dear Life" in Italy and "Up All Night" in the US) were released between June 2016 and September 2017. The title track was also released as a single in April 2018. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Beck’s 13th album is his most overtly pop record, one filled with sunshine and sadness, but feels connected to little more than a good idea.
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Rolling Stone
It’s a brilliant attempt to reckon with – and put his own stamp on – modern pop in the late 2010s
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Consequence of Sound
Beck’s most plainly listenable record in years.
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NME
‘Colors’ is by far Beck’s most upbeat and enjoyable record from front to back since the ’90s.
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Pop Matters
It's not perfect, but it is a joyful, engaging listen.
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Spin
His Most Professional Pop Album Yet.
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The Guardian
Colors is extreme, featuring some of the best and worst songs that Beck has ever written.
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Variety
The most pop-oriented album of his entire career.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Colors appears as a breakage, a blemish upon the catalogue.
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Entertainment Weekly
Colors proves that Beck is still one of rock’s most intrepid inventors.
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Slant Magazine
Beck fails to give his euphoric, outsized sense of liberation much emotional heft.
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Vulture
Has a few good ideas and some bad ones too.
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The Line of Best Fit
Ultimately lacks both substance and staying power.
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Drowned in Sound
Colors is a bizarre experience for any previous fan of Beck, whose enjoyment of this record will be determined whether they can get over this jarringly "mainstream" record.
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The 405
An unusually poppy, straightforward and cleanly produced album.
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AV Club
Colors is solid—Beck doesn’t make bad records, whatever mode he’s in—and it flirts with greatness.
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All Music
Colors doesn't offer the depth and intrigue of most Beck albums, it does mean it's a fun confection.
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American Song Writer
This intricately layered, club-ready set is also a headphone lover’s delight as the elaborately constructed tracks unspool, revealing fresh, unexpected nuances over each spin.
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ABC News
“Colors” is indeed a bold, bright, daring move.
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Pretty Much Amazing
It truly is neither good nor bad — it simply is
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NPR
Those moments are reminders of just how hard it is to manufacture pop exuberance under studio conditions — but they're quickly erased whenever another of those airborne, bliss-seeking hooks comes along.
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Spill Magazine
Colors is a psychedelic pop soundscape that is definitely worth checking out.
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Write the World
Colors sets itself apart as an exquisite blend of musical genres and one of the year's few convivial releases
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Under the radar Magazine
If you've missed Beck the musical collage artist, Colors is the one that should bring you back.
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Chicago Tribune
Beck has made a mainstream pop album designed for adults to enjoy — nothing less, nothing more.
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Bearded Gentlemen Music
Colors is void of any true color of emotion, really.
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Atwood Magazine
The buoyancy of this pop- and dance-rock record will make it a standout among Beck’s discography, for the old Beck heads as well as the newer ones.
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Sputnik Music
Colors is a varied and blissful pop album that finds joy in our times, and Beck expectedly makes it interesting and vibrant to experience.
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Exclaim!
Colors is a breezy, tightly composed party-starter of a record that doesn't demand much of the listener, but gives back generously.
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Albumism
It brings across Beck's acceptance of his best pop self and the resulting music just feels so damn good.
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Esquire
Beck's new album is perfect for a really weird car commercial.
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Spectrum Culture
Colors feels like the sonic equivalent of a Cadbury Creme Egg: too sugary and made from artificial ingredients older than you’d like to admit
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BG Falcon Media
Beck seems to be more concerned with making a sing along radio-ready hit than actually saying something with meaning.
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Stereogum
Beck’s made so much good music over the years, and maybe one day he can recapture the restless silliness that he so utterly failed to conjure here.
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Clash
This isn’t a bad record, but it’s quite surprisingly bland.
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Sun Genre
Given the release of superb singles such as “Dreams”, “Up All Night” and the jaunty, Elliott Smith-esque “Dear Life”, we could be excused for having lofty expectations of Colors. Alas, the remainder of the album is fine, but largely unremarkable by comparison.
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The Lawrentian
Beck has always been a chameleon, but in this effort, his shifting colors make him sound like he is trying to become a carbon copy of today’s pop artists.
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The Arts Desk
Colors may have a number of winning moments, but overall it just doesn't make you feel quite as good as you'd hoped.
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Daily Nebraskan
Colors is a reminder of why I fell in love with Beck’s music
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Some Thing Else!
Colors boasts a strong set of songs, and Beck’s songwriting remains melodically challenging.
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Irish Times
Beck is back, filling the dance floor with snap, crackle and pop
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WMSC
With the exception of some catchy riffs, and the song ‘Fix Me’, Colors is just another incredibly safe play for Beck in a discography that has been playing it safe the past decade.
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The Music
Beck is back and wastes no time getting down to business with the opening title track a punchy one-two, all swanky chorus and excitement.
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The Last Mixed tape
Colors is a good pop album, just not a very good Beck album.
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Treble Magazine
The parts of Colors that work stem from its playfulness, the sense of Beck experimenting in the studio until something sticks.
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Forces of Geek
Short and sweet, but nevertheless short.
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Secret Meeting
Beck seems to have blended into the background with this record.
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DIY Magazine
‘Colors’ is Beck at his most exuberant, concocting weird, wonderful dancefloor fillers like a mad disco scientist.
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Tampa Bay Times
Beck's pop phase won't last forever. But with Colors, it's a pleasure to enjoy it while we can.
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Earbuddy
Instead, it’s the same color as everything else in the mainstream pop world.
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The Young Folks
Bright, funky, and bumping with boundless energy, Colors is the most fun Beck has had on an album in over a decade.
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METRO
If you’re after something that doesn’t ask too much of you nor requires an intense listen to fully understand it, there’s a lot of feel good pop and a lot of dancing music here.
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The Advocate
Beck's most accessible, radio-friendly offering in years but, this being Beck, it's brilliantly layered, with plenty of interesting things happening under the hood.
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Cryptic Rock
Beck delivers the Pop but does it in a way that avoids senseless cliché, and is so sonically upbeat that one has a hard time resisting the urge to get up and dance.
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Newsday
Beck shows how hard it is to get happy.
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