ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
| Beck
ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE
One Foot in the Grave is the third independent studio album and fourth overall by American alternative rock musician Beck, released in June 1994 on K Records, an independent label. It was recorded prior to the release of Mellow Gold, but was not released until after that album had met critical and commercial success. One Foot in the Grave shows a strong lo-fi and folk influence, and features several songs that are interpolations or covers of songs popularized by artists like Skip James and The Carter Family.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
This set of ramshackle folk songs did as much to create the slacker ethos as Beck's more well-known 1994 release, Mellow Gold. It's also almost as good.
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All Music
It's also distinctively Beck in how it blurs lines between the past and present, the traditional and the modern, the sincere and the sarcastic
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musicOMH
One Foot In The Grave remains one of the greatest achievements in the Beck discography.
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BBC
For casual fans, it is worth hearing and does feature some great unknown gems, but is more of a record to dip in and out of for a few songs at a time.
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The Quietus
OFITG is popularly known, if it is known at all, as a kind of proto-Mutations, although its rawness holds far more charm and inspiration than the latter's polished production.
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Sputnik Music
One Foot in the Grave is an early taste of Beck, but it�s still got that Beck wackiness we all know and love. Or hate.
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Pin Point Music
if you’re interested in getting to know the Beck that loves Leadbelly and 90’s American trash culture in equal measures, you’ll find him here
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Entertainment Weekly
One Foot in the Grave presents our hero as an earnest young student of vernacular American music, knocking off Guthrie-esque sing-alongs, loose-stringed slide blues, and originals (with titles like ”Cyanide Breath Mint”) that come off as the alternative-rock equivalent to folklorist field recordings.
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Clash
His best album ever? Maybe...
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Under the Radar
in lyrical theme, instrumental depth and breadth of sound it’s as naively beautiful and poetic as Beck was back then
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Record Collector Magazine
OFITG pulled up Beck’s traditional folk and blues roots. No mere pastiche artist, however, they came mutated through lo-fi recordings where you “cut your hand on the atmosphere… the atmosphere is split in two, staring at you”
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