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Beck / Morning Phases

You might as well add it to Audiogon Recordings To Die For list. This recording has it in spades,wall to wall sound,layers of imaging and the music sounds like Sea Change. a handfull songs sound like Pink Floyd but without Gilmour's guitar, two of them Morning and Turn Away,the vocal mix has me reaching for my Moody Blues albums.Other songs are very intimate classic Beck. This so far is the masterpiece of 2014. Oh yeah this is from the CD,I'm waiting on my vinyl copy.
qdrone
hodu
312 posts
 
Upbeat? No. But ...
I bought the album (on CD) on Tuesday, the day of its release. Played it twice. Woke up on Wednesday -- morning phase, get it -- with one of the songs -- "Heart is a Drum" in my head. And I was happy to have it there.
I've played it twice since, and it is sounding better each time. It's got instrumentation like "Sea Change," but it ain't so dour. At all.
Some of the tunes are actually quite pretty, can make you smile.
Highly recommended.
-- Howard
loomisjohnson
1,905 posts
 
very very similar in feel and sound to sea change, which i've always had mixed feelings about. the new album's pretty, and good sounding, and he's got a nice feel for melody, but with beck i always hear more intellect/craft than genuine musicality/inspiration. plus he's never been much of a singer, although again he's smart enough to minimize his limitations. i feel the same way about bowie and madonna.
lse
83 posts
 
I have seen him live four times and have every one of his CDs. I think the new one ought to be called The Soporific. Very tedious and nary a hook. Incredibly disappointed. To my mind, he's getting less and less inventive. It seems like he mailed this one in.
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phasecorrect
2,013 posts
 
His vocal work on Phase is quite strong... the first track is a carpon copy of *Golden Age ...some nice studio trickery/atmosperics...too early to tell if this has the staying power of Sea Change...that was a unique at times magical LP.Production wise it is stellar.
jetrexpro
506 posts
 
Qdrone, Thanks or the heads up. Listening to the full album on youtube. Going to put this on my list to buy on vinyl
Jet
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