Title: Guano
Product review: I hate to say it, because I love nearly all of Beck's recordings, but for someone who consistently puts out 5 star works this one stinks. After hearing the first track I thought, great another CD where I have to skip the first sing. However, the whole album sounds like one long muddy song so I'm telling you to skip the whole thing. The songs go nowhere, the whole time your wondering why this is being compared to Odelay. The only similarity between the two is in their over-production. In Odelay the production complements the fun attitude. The entire time you listen to Guero you are waiting, expecting the next song to be exciting, but it's not. The album is terribly uninspiring; the lyrics are more unrecognizable than usual, muffled behind a hodgepodge of competing sound. If Beck can no longer write songs that make you want to boogie, then he should stick to the blues. I suppose in his hopes of curbing his TRL fan loss due to Sea Change's melancholy and simplicity, he made an ambiguous bat turd.
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