Guero
| Beck
Guero
Guero is the sixth official studio album and ninth overall by American musician Beck, released on March 29, 2005 through Interscope. It is seen by many as a return to the style of Odelay, mainly because this album, like Odelay, is produced with the Dust Brothers and Tony Hoffer. It also recalls Mutations in places with its Brazilian influences.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Beck dips deeply into Latin rhythms, reveling in the street culture of the East L.A. neighborhood where he grew up. ...
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NME
Guero’ represents a very clever man being clever enough to recognise what he’s good at. Keep on, brother, keep on
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AV Club
It sounds okay, sometimes even better than okay, but it doesn't stir much passion, unlike even the most irony-entrenched Beck albums of the past.
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All Music
it's a successful mature variation on Odelay, one that proves that Beck's sensibility will continue to reap rewards for him as he enters his second decade of recording
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BBC
the whole album is a move forward. Even at its most raucous ("Chain Reaction" gets pretty shouty), things are more restrained, while the production is more adventurous, with richer textures and arrangements
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Sputnik Music
An instant classic, and an instant favorite, guaranteed.
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Drowned in Sound
this is the sound of an artist having fun with a well practised sound. For newcomers and fans just pleased to see a Gen X survivor still making credible records, 'Guero' is a joy.
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Pop Matters
On one level, Guero is the quintessential Beck album, incorporating aspects of everything he's done.
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Slant Magazine
For his eighth album, Guero, Beck reunites with the Dust Brothers, the production team that helped make Odelay a masterpiece of perfected pop-cult clutter.
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The Guardian
Beck's biggest weakness has always been trying too hard. It's good to hear him so happy in his own clothes.
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Paste
an album remarkable in its consistent, pleasant above-averageness, punctuated by bursts of true genius.
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No Depression
Guero isn't quite the throwdown Beck's subgenius fanboys might have planned, but it's a happening all the same: crafty and danceable, with more than enough space on the floor for thinking, feeling, and wondering what's next.
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Concert Live Wire
it still ends up a surprising breath of fresh air from this unpredictable, offbeat artist.
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No Ripcord
Guero is a record with lots of great ideas and some very good songs, and a lot of other artists would give their back teeth (and their back catalogue) for
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Erasing Clouds
Guero might be the most interesting album I've heard so far this year, and I mean that in a good way
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People
Beck proves he has plenty of life left
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Treble Magazine
Guero is new, and because of this fun fact, it’s sounds fresh.
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RTE
'Guero' might be far from Beck's best, but that's still light-years better than your average singer-songwriter.
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Mr Hipster
Nothing here grabs you. Nothing sticks.
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Salon
"Guero" in no way expands the bounds of popular music, and it doesn't point in any useful directions for others to follow. But Beck has never been quite so fun to listen to.
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Dusted Magazine
I found it moving and disturbing, with lyrics and arrangements complementing each other to produce a series of mature reflections on romantic disillusion.
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entertainment.ie
A real return to form.
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Entertainment Weekly
"Guero" is, thankfully, alive and frisky. It's his most inviting, least off-putting work in years.
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