Modern Guilt | 
 enlarge | Artist: Beck
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517754416
EAN: 0602517754416
ASIN: B0019GAOI2
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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| • | Orphans | | • | Gamma Ray | | • | Chemtrails | | • | Modern Guilt | | • | Youthless | | • | Walls | | • | Replica | | • | Soul of A Man | | • | Profanity Prayers | | • | Volcano |
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Beck's new album Modern Guilt, produced with Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, will be released July 8, 2008.
The new album contains 10 new songs, and with the exception of last year's Grammy-nominated, digital-only single "Timebomb", Modern Guilt is the first new material Beck has written since the prolific stretch that produced 2005's platinum Guero and 2006's universally acclaimed The Information.
Modern Guilt is a tightly assembled group of songs that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor. Musically, the album's ten tracks vacillate between economy and experimentation, hybrid and pop classicism, while consistently manifesting Beck and Danger Mouse's shared interest in psych-rock, folk, electronic minimalism and orchestration.
Beck is about to embark on a tour of the UK and Europe, followed by a number of US headline and festival appearances, culminating in Beck's biggest hometown headline show to date, September 20, 2008 at the Hollywood Bowl. Beck Photos
Album Description
Modern Guilt is the tenth studio album by musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Beck. Modern Guilt features two contributions by Cat Power and co-produced by Danger Mouse. The hit track 'Chemtrails' is a genre-bending tour de force that showcases Beck and producer Danger Mouse's shared affection for late '60s Psych-Pop. The album releases on July 8, 2008, his 38th birthday.
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 The Future Sound of Rock August 18, 2008
M. Hayes
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The word "modern" in the title is fitting for this album cause I think Beck has created a new style in rock music which is new and a style that I percieve will try to be duplicated again and again . The album is just a little over 30 minutes, but I don' t want to focus on its length, but rather its unique style and sound. Songs like Replica, Chemtrials, Walls, and Gamma Rays sound like songs well ahead of their time. Modern Guilt somewhat reminds me of The Velvet Underground and Nico album from the 60's which created a unique sound and feel in the world of rock which greatly influenced bands and artist for years. Beck is one of those artist which seems to always be outside of the mainstream rock music tread but is always setting a new pace for others to follow. Modern Guilt is a great album, even though I don't think its as soild as Guero, its still one of his best albums and dosn't sound like a duplicate of any of his past albums, but a new sound worth checking out.
 Beck's Experiments Leave Mixed Ruselts Sometimes August 17, 2008
Mark W. Sweeny Jr. (Syracuse, N.Y. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seems a very mixed CD to me. I would have put the tracks In another progression. But does have a few awesome tracks. I had an Idea what to expect and I should never do that with Beck he changes too much.
Another reason for 3 Instead of 4 stars Is the CD Is very short like 35 minutes. Should be EP priced almost. No not almost 1 less song and It's an EP
Best So Far August 15, 2008
Aaron Ping (Kobe, Hyogo Japan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this album a far better listen than anything I've heard previously by Beck. Melodic, but in a Beckish way, this album takes you along a distinctive trip without too much jarring.
To the Days of Vinyl August 13, 2008
Russell E. Gundlach
A throwback to the days of vinyl records, Beck and producer Danger Mouse squeeze many interesting ideas into approximately 40 minutes worth of music. There's nothing really new musically added to Beck's catalog here. It could have been part of a double album with Mutations. That idea alone makes it a valuable addition to a Beck collection.
Beck - Modern Guilt 8/10 August 10, 2008
Rudy Klapper (Los Angeles / Orlando)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The pairing of Americana-junk maestro Beck and radical producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse seems at first glance so obvious, so undeniably right, that it's hard to believe Beck didn't enlist the mash-up auteur sooner. One is a musician whose defined his career with taking genres apart and splicing them back together with the detritus of culture to create an amalgam that has made for a career as wildly disparate and creative as it is uneven, while the other is a visionary producer who gave remixers everywhere a new lease on life. While Modern Guilt isn't exactly the masterpiece fans might've hoped for, it is one of Beck's most tightly focused records in years and one that forebodes well for the duo's partnership.
Modern Guilt is, at first listen, neither as immediately accessible as 2005's Guero or as sprawling and erratic as 2006's The Information. Beck's more expansive urges have been reined in by Danger Mouse's production, and the result is a concise record that spares no seconds in pointless instrumentation or unnecessary filler. Lyrically and at times musically the album recalls Sea Change's morose depression, focusing on themes of war, suicide, confusion, and essentially a good number of the world's problems. Beck's lyrics have always been a little hard to interpret, but while the songs here are clearly not the most optimistic in Beck's catalog, they're nowhere near the self-flagellating grief of Sea Change.
The first half of the record is fantastic, a series of some of the best, most incisive songs Beck has put down. "Orphans" starts off softly with a garage drumbeat and an acoustic guitar strumming along as Beck questions "how can I make new again what rusts every time?" Following song "Gamma Ray" is just as sparse but turns out to be the poppiest song Beck has recorded since Guero's "Girl," a chugging surf-rock guitar propelling a simple yet effective chorus. "Chemtrails," the longest song on the record at 4:38, is anchored by a cascading drum rhythm and some of the trippiest vocals on the album. Strangely enough, it reminds me of something would fit right at home on The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi record.
The title track and "Youthless" continue the album's strong run, the former a folksy shuffle about the generally bad direction the world is going in spiced up with a few electronic bleeps and a string part, while the latter is an up-tempo, bass-driven jam that is effectively catchy in its skimpy simplicity.
The second half tends to slow down as some of the momentum drops off, but Beck still has a few tricks up his sleeve: namely, the immediately memorable junk-drum and wailing synths on the chorus of "Walls" and the thumping, Western-outlaw vibe of "Soul Of A Man" with its squealing guitar lighting up the track.
"Replica," however, trips itself up with an out-of-place beat that jitters and jives to the point of exasperation and never really seems to develop beyond its beginnings, while "Profanity Prayers," mires itself in a boring driving guitar rhythm before redeeming itself with a far more interesting outro. Closer "Volcano" is a slow tale in the mold of "Emergency Exit" from Guero, built on top of a ticking drum machine and an anti-climatic ending that ends Modern Guilt on a melancholic, weak note.
Beck has never been one to be caught empty-handed of fresh ideas, and Modern Guilt proves that his songwriting abilities are still in sharp form. Danger Mouse's varied and consistently accomplished production makes for an album that is nearly uniformly good while ensuring that Beck's excesses were funneled into something constructive. Timely and more layered than much of what Beck has recorded in the past few years, Modern Guilt is a promising indication of a great partnership in the making.
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