New Beck - "Orphans," "Gamma Ray"
All signs point to Beck and Danger Mouse pulling a stealth release of Modern Guilt. All signs also point to Modern Guilt being the album to restore faith in Beck's untouchable changeling abilities. Danger and Hansen have been talking psych and rock and electronic minimalism and the '60s, and today's new listens (alongside a full serving of "Chemtrails") wear that rubric well.
iLike's got the streams, including "Gamma Ray" (which opened the video teaser Beck put out yesterday) and "Orphans." The latter has shades of folk blasted by big open-hat beats and electronic hazes -- and a guest vocal from one Chan Marshall -- but it's "Gamma Ray"'s big thwapping grooves that are calling for big single status. Definitely entrenched in the '60s, and I'm definitely loving every second, right down to the Blue Note-d album art.
Posted at 10:47 AM by amrit
Tags: Beck | Cat Power | Danger Mouse
Damn this is going to be a good record...
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These tracks are so sexy
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yeah this is a good record, but a little too short at 33 minutes. Gamma Ray, Chemtrails, Walls, Volcano are the best songs, oh and the Aphex/Squarepusher one, whatever it's called, I can't remember. Ricochets like fuck. Brilliant.
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GIVE US THE ALBUM BIG CHEESE!
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yes
leak please
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I'd rather be begging for more out of an album (see: Accelerate) than having it run on 20 minutes too long (see: most rap albums).
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Yeah. Those are HOT tracks. Now I´m anxious to hear the rest of them.
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He's a Scientologist.
Move on.
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what does that have anything to do with his new music? NOTHING. get get get over it.
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sounds like horses fucking.
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Gamma Ray sure sounds like a song that could have very easily come out of Super Furry Animals.
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pumped for sure. whats the drop date on that album?
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Anyone have a Gamma Ray Mp3?
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By Blue Note'd album art you surely meant Columbia'd "Highway 61 Revisited" album art, right?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00026WU82 vs. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0019GAOI2
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Here's what Beck himself says, in his 52 favorite album covers piece on Vanity Fair (2006, http://tinyurl.com/5sw8f4 ): "Highway 61 Revisited is one of the first great anti-covers. Dylan looks burnt, shirt wrinkled--like he's waiting for catering at the gig or something. And somebody's just randomly walked in behind him. In an era of Patti Page-style, perfectly lit and posed covers, this cover was a defecation. And these days you'd rarely see such a throwaway picture on such an "important" album."
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JFC! He did it again.....
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"Gamma Ray" makes me think of Batman.
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Chan and beck plus mouse = very good music
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