{"id":973,"date":"2014-02-27T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=973"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:40:48","slug":"beck-morning-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/beck-morning-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Beck <br>Morning Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beck-morning_phase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-974\" alt=\"Beck, Morning Phase\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beck-morning_phase.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beck-morning_phase.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/beck-morning_phase-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Beck was my result for Buzzfeed\u2019s \u201cWhich \u201990s Alt-Rock Dude Are You?\u201d quiz, so I feel uniquely qualified to evaluate his new album. Who else\u2014aside from perhaps all the other respondents who also have the same taste in off-brand Dr. Pepper\u2014can provide insights into the record of someone who is clearly a kindred spirit?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I, er, Beck\u2014though I guess we\u2019re pretty much the same person\u2014should take offense to being lumped into the \u201990s. Granted, you have to be at a comfortable point in your career when you can do conceptual releases like 2012\u2019s <i>Song Reader<\/i>, which wasn\u2019t really a record as it was released only as sheet music. Yet Beck\u2019s always marched to the beat of his own drum. <i>Morning Phase <\/i>(Capitol Records), which he has been describing as the companion piece to 2002\u2019s <i>Sea Change<\/i>, shows that just because he\u2019s matured from the quirky \u201cLoser\u201d of 1994 and the funkified <i>Midnight Vulture<\/i> of the late \u201990s doesn\u2019t mean we should relegate his relevance to a Buzzfeed pop culture quiz answer quite yet.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sea Change<\/i> was a melancholy post-breakup record, so <i>Morning Phase<\/i> is the evolutionary next step, a self-reflective album that\u2019s perhaps a little more hopeful. After all, you can\u2019t have an end without a new beginning, something conveyed with songs like \u201cCycle\u201d and \u201cHeart Is a Drum.\u201d Yet there\u2019s a sense of isolation throughout the record\u2014not only in the lyrics, but in the music as well, thanks, in part, to string arrangements by Beck\u2019s father, David Campbell, who somehow makes the individual instruments within an orchestra sound lonely.<\/p>\n<p>For all the sad subjects on the record, there are a few musical twists, such as the \u201960s melodies of \u201cTurn Away,\u201d the folksy \u201cBlackbird Chain\u201d and the country ballad called, appropriately, \u201dCountry Down.\u201d But what stand out on <i>Morning Phase<\/i> are the hauntingly beautiful tracks. On \u201cWave,\u201d the vocals soar and retreat as they echo the song\u2019s title, Beck repeating the word \u201cisolation,\u201d dipping and rising. He opens \u201cBlue Moon\u201d with the assertion, \u201cI\u2019m so tired of being alone.\u201d Beck obviously wrote this record before he saw on Facebook how many people got him as a quiz result. You\u2019re not alone, Beck, not as long as people like tacos or whatever snack food decided we\u2019re alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beck was my result for Buzzfeed\u2019s \u201cWhich \u201990s Alt-Rock Dude Are You?\u201d quiz, so I feel uniquely qualified to evaluate his new album. 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