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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.
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loomisjohnson
1,905 posts
 
been listening to this more, and i'm revising my initial impressions upwards--the songs are there, and as others have commented it's sonically excellent. i still struggle with his voice--he uses the same unnatural-sounding baritone on each track and i keep wondering how great the record would be with a really good nuanced singer.
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
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erndog
261 posts
 
HD Tracks is offering it in 96/24 which is on my short list to buy. This will be my first Beck cd. I steered away from Sea Changes because I thought it sounded to depressing.

Also, Computer Audiophile has a thread were the editor bought all the current versions of this and reviewed them and listed them in order of sound quality. The HD tracks download was #2 and I forget what #1 was...
ballisticon
4 posts
 
Album arrived a few days ago. Listened to the first three tracks this morning and had to turn it off. It sounds so good that only with a nice drink and proper volume should this be enjoyed. Sounds incredible.
rockn
26 posts
 
I bought the HD tracks version, I can't stop listening to it. Not a weak track on it. It is a lot like Sea Change so if you didn't like that CD you probably won't care for this.
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