Title: An understated classic
Review: Following on from 2002's Hollow, this album is simply stunning. There's something gentle and undeniably warm about Beck's songs, from the fragile, desolate beauty of Lay Down to the swaying pedal steel of Zombie Girl. With an easy picking style his guitar and voice combine perfectly, brass and strings employed subtly to great effect on tracks like Alice and Floating. With lyrics that lull you then bite with deliciously dark wit, Beck manages to be both bittersweet and emotively intense without ever succumbing to all out melancholia - it's an album so perfectly crafted it can't help but a smile on your face.
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