Beck - Jack-AssAlbum: Odelay [1996]
his greatest accomplishment to date, "odelay" was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 that highlighted beck's ever-changing sounds and ambitions. the album winds up touching on a number of disparate strands - folk and country, grungy garage rock, electro, old-school rap, and touches of noise rock - but there's no snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly with the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are. each track twists conventions, either in their construction or presentation, giving a vibrant, electric pulse. 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, it's an album that is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before.
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