Beck - Odelay

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Artikel Name: Odelay
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Universal US Titelanzahl: 13

Trackliste LP - 1

Beck - Devils Haircut (Album Version) 3:15 Beck - Hotwax (Album Version) 3:50 Beck - Lord Only Knows (Album Version) 4:15 Beck - The New Pollution (Album Version) 3:40 Beck - Derelict (Album Version) 4:13 Beck - Novacane (Album Version) 4:38 Beck - Jack-Ass (Album Version) 4:12 Beck - Where It's At (Album Version) 5:31 Beck - Minus (Album Version) 2:32 Beck - Sissyneck (Album Version) 3:57 Beck - Readymade (Album Version) 2:37 Beck - High 5 (Rock The Catskills) (Album Version) 4:11 Beck - Ramshackle 4:47

Beschreibung

Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Odelay shared a similar collage structure to that 1989 masterpiece, relying on a blend of found sounds and samples, but instead of lending the album its primary colors, the Dust Brothers provided the accents, highlighting Beck's ever-changing sounds, tying together his stylistic shifts, making the leaps from the dirge-blues of "Jack-Ass" to the hazy party rock of "Where's It's At" seem not so great. Like Mellow Gold, Odelay winds up touching on a number of disparate strands -- folk and country, grungy garage rock, stiff-boned electro, louche exotica, old-school rap, touches of noise rock -- but there's no break-neck snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly, the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are. Most of the songs here betray Beck's roots as an anti-folk singer -- he reworks blues structures ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows," "Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle") and rap ("High 5 [Rock the Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but each track twists conventions, either in their construction or presentation, giving this a vibrant, electric pulse, surprising in its form and attack. Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than its parts, so while some of Beck's best songs are here, Odelay is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine