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artist : Beck
title : Sea Change (Japan Edition)
year : 2002
label : Geffen
cat : UICF-1015
url : www.beck.com
date : Jan-03-2003
genre : Rock
quality : 192kbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo
source : CDDA
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01 The Golden Age
02 Paper Tiger
03 Guess I'm Doing Fine
04 Lonesome Tears
05 Lost Cause
06 End of the Day
07 It's All in Your Mind
08 Round the Bend
09 Already Dead
10 Sunday Sun
11 Little One
12 Side of the Road
13 Ship in the Bottle
13 tracks | 55:33 min | 76,4 MB
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Beck has always been known for his ever-changing moods ---
particularly since they often arrived one after another on one
album, sometimes within one song ù yet the shift between the
neon-glitz of Midnite Vultures and the lush, somber Sea Change is
startling, and not just because it finds him in full-on
singer/songwriter mode, abandoning all of the postmodern
pranksterism of its predecessor. What's startling about Sea Change
is how it brings everything that's run beneath the surface of
Beck's music to the forefront, as if he's unafraid to not just
reveal emotions, but to elliptically examine them in this
wonderfully melancholy song cycle. If, on most albums prior to this,
Beck's music was a sonic kaleidoscope --- each song shifting
familiar and forgotten sounds into colorful, unpredictable
combinations --- this discards genre-hopping in favor of focus, and
the concentration pays off gloriously, resulting in not just his
best album, but one of the greatest late-night, brokenhearted albums
in pop. This, as many reviews and promotional interviews have noted,
is indeed a breakup album, but it's not a bitter listen; it has a
wearily beautiful sound, a comforting, consoling sadness. His words
are often evocative, but not nearly as evocative as the music
itself, which is rooted equally in country-rock (not alt-country),
early-'70s singer/songwriterism, and Baroque British psychedelia.
With producer Nigel Godrich, Beck has created a warm, enveloping
sound, with his acoustic guitar supported by grand string
arrangements straight out of Paul Buckmaster, eerie harmonies, and
gentle keyboards among other subtler touches that give this record
a richness that unveils more with each listen. Surely, some may
bemoan the absence of the careening, freeform experimentalism of
Odelay, but Beck's gifts as a songwriter, singer, and musician have
never been as brilliant as they are here. As Sea Change is playing,
it feels as if Beck singing to you alone, revealing painful,
intimate secrets that mirror your own. It's a genuine masterpiece
in an era with too damn few of them. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine/AMG
Japanese edition of long-awaited fourth studio album (his first
since 1999's Midnite Vultures) includes one exclusive bonus track,
'Ship In The Bottle'. 13 tracks in all.
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CERTiFiED QUALiTY iNC 2002
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