MODERN GUILT
| Beck
MODERN GUILT
Modern Guilt is the eighth official studio album and eleventh overall by American alternative artist Beck. Modern Guiltfeatures two contributions by Cat Power and was produced by Beck and Danger Mouse. The album lasts 33 minutes, making it the shortest album by Beck to date. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Probably Beck's most harrowing collection of songs yet
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Rolling Stone
There’s a lot of life pulsing through Modern Guilt.
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Consequence of Sound
If anything, this is going to sound great in the middle of the night.
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BBC
Modern Guilt is a slight addition in the Beck canon, and it feels vaguely ephemeral and lacking in depth.
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IGN
Deceptively mellow and teeming with intricate ambiance.
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Slant Magazine
The new album’s brief 10 tracks prove that he’s almost always more interesting when he’s not having fun.
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The Guardian
The sounds are dazzling.
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All Music
Every song stays as long as it needs to, then lingers behind in memory, leaving behind a collection of echoes and impressions.
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Pop Matters
An inevitable collaboration of like-minded souls, Modern Guilt is the resulting collusion with super-producer Danger Mouse.
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Uncut
So Beck is finally fun again, and you suspect the person most surprised by how well Modern Guilt turned out is the guy who made it.
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Drowned in Sound
Modern Guilt though, finds Beck in the difficult situation of trying to marry increasingly introspective musings with his special flavour of upbeat high-style, lo-fi production.
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American Song Writer
It won’t be your favorite Beck album, but regardless of his message, his lyrics are still brilliant and always original.
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musicOMH
Modern Guilt doesn’t have much staying power.
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The Quietus
His lyrics were random, nonsensical, but he delivered them with a knowingness that grounded them. They seemed to say, 'Sure, I don't know what I'm talking about, but neither do you'.
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30 Days Out
Moody, backward-looking, trippy … Modern Guilt is all of these things.
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Paste Magazine
Beck paradoxically ends up doing what he does best—tweaking our expectations.
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entertainment.ie
Beck has used Modern Guilt to once again, display his knack for sonic diversity.
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getfrank
Modern Guilt is a brilliant little pop album that is light on Beck’s trademark chaos yet heavy on melody, hooks and well crafted songs.
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Alternative Addiction
It’s a short but enjoyable listening experience.
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NewsOK
the melodies and arrangements, delivered with economy at 31 minutes, show newfound inspiration and life.
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Blurt
Modern Guilt amounts to no more than another intriguing addition to Beck’s always-solid, occasionally-great discography.
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NME
The musical magpie adds majestic bleakness to classic Laurel Canyon folk rock on his 12th album.
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Tone Audio
It’s good fun and worth the money.
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The Tech
A whispering prophet who inspects his own life and the world around him through a magnifying glass with a storm-grey lens.
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Spitirual Book Club
This album has given us quite the trip and to listen to it is bliss right through to the end, so follow the leader because Beck isn’t stopping anytime soon.
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Norman Records
There's a complete mish mash of ideas but its a thoroughly coherent pop album where he styles range from 60's flower child, electronica, alt rock, singer songwriter.
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WPGU
In no way is it a disappointment.
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The Times
Modern Guilt's genius soon envelops you.
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Antiquiet
The guy with the new wave bionic jumpsuit who’s been getting us into his rhythm with biochemical jism for almost 20 years has just made the best album of his career.
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The Aggie
Funky, electronic beats contrast with Beck’s grave lyrics and themes, creating a dichotomy that is simultaneously danceable and somberly beautiful.
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NY Daily News
Given its lava-lamp-like swirl of sound, you'll find yourself drawn right in.
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Journal Star
Danger Mouse can’t pull Beck out of his disillusioned bleakness, which makes “Modern Guilt” a bummer for the summer 3.5/5
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Austin Chronicle
Modern Guilt is compacted for impact and delivers.
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Nashville Public Library
Tip of the hat to producer Danger Mouse, known for his pop noir style which works well here with Beck’s multi-layered junk-pile dredging inventiveness.
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Lexgo
Modern Guilt is at least more sonically interesting than Beck's last bummer album, Sea Change, but the sense of missed opportunities here start to annoy pretty quickly.
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Creative Loafing
It's solid from start to finish.
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Daily Bruin
Hats off to a man who can make beauty out of hurt.
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AV Club
Modern Guilt does feature some incredibly inventive beats and atmosphere, but they're deployed in service of seriously dark lyrics
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Tiny Mix Tapes
With constant references to religion, bombs, planes, and global warming, it's fair to suggest that Beck is making a statement with Modern Guilt.
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Scene Point Blank
Each new album marks a new listening adventure with a whole new spectrum of influences.
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