MODERN GUILT-austin

I am tired of giving Beck his fair share of chances. However with the cover of his new album reminding me of Dylan’s Highway 61 and a lead track remanisant from the same decade, I couldn’t help to wonder….what was the rest of this Danger Mouse produced album like.

So I embarked on a virtual journey to find a glimpse into the new album, which by the way is dropping July 7th on vinyl only. (just messin)

my most reliable source Drowned in Sound hooked me up with a track by track listing of whats up……so…here is a taste of……whats up.

1 ‘Orphans’
Throbbing bass, cheeky skittering hand-clap riddled hip-hop drums and lush Beach Boys backing vocals courtesy of Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power.
3 ‘Chemtrails’
Pace drops with lots of floaty “aaahhh-ahhhhh”s from Mister Hansen and Cat Power, drifting along nicely before tumbling in a Beta Band kinda way with a waft of Flaming Lips. You’ve probably heard this one already, but if not visit myspace.com/beck.
5 ‘Youthless’
Opens like Justin Timberlake and the bass grinds like a vanilla ‘Milkshake’ ‘til some Kraftwerk keys come dripping all over the place like the record’s about to turn into a Fabric remix album.
6 ‘Walls’
Sounds like a single. Somewhere between the glossy-dirty shuffling of OutKast’s Stankonia and something the Police might’ve done. 
8 ‘Soul of A Man’
A riff romp. Imagine a supergroup of The Stones, The Roots and Queens of the Stone Age, kickin’ it like Run DMC never happened.

Overall, I think this is going to be the most decent album beck has put out in the past couple years. Based off of hype, I am going to give it 3 out of 5 weshare stars. lets see how my thoughts differ on its release.

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