Beck’s latest release, “Modern Guilt”, is also his first collaboration with Gnarls Barkley member and Gorillaz producer DJ Dangermouse. The album features a remarkable synergy as both Dangermouse and Beck have created a retro-future psychedelic 60′s sound. Under the production of Dangermouse, Beck’s ethereal backing vocals, chugging bottomless bass, and impeccable ear for melody take on a much more tangible form than they have in the last two albums. Not that at times Guero and the Information weren’t hard hitting, but those albums and their many overlapping layers and rubbery reverb effects created a dream like atmosphere, particularly on the Information. Which to me is a good thing. And reverb and rubbery bass are still present on Modern Guilt, there’s just something more straight forward and weighty about them. The fuzzed out bass, beats and crisp production (including the spectacular use of a folky violin) make Modern Guilt seem more ‘real’. Like waking from a neon light show of a dream to the sun bursting through the pastel pallet of dawn.
Beck – Chemtrails
The Psychadelic video for Beck’s “Gamma Ray”
Any Incredible Hulk influence here? Perhaps?
