Beck
Odelay

This album I liked when it came out - today when I hear it I do not think so - a crash of styles and tones - it has good moments, but as a musical work it's not compact

While pop acts like Girls Aloud can simplify their methods of communication down to mere funky music nowadays, forsaking the need to learn even the m...

When it was first released, Odelay did not seem built to last. There was no doubting the brilliance of how Beck blended folk, hip-hop and sundry othe...

Beck’s 1996 breakthrough album, Odelay, upgraded the stock of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter from one-hit wonder to post-modern absurdist. Be...

The good, perhaps obvious, news: Beck's Odelay still holds up remarkably well a dozen years after its release. It's the most fully realized and purely...

Back during the first Tarantino administration (when multi-­referencing white boys were running shit), this album turned a one-hit busker w...

In Spin's 20 Years of Alternative Music, Beck is called "a generation's consolation prize after the death of Kurt Cobain." Chronologically, ...

On his early records, Beck made it all sound so easy, people fell for the idea he wasn't trying very hard. He was happy to play the role of a musical ...