 | Odelay - Beck
Publisher: Polydor Group
Released on 23 December 2002
List Price: £9.99
That's the great thing about being a written off as a one-hit wonder--it really focuses your mind on making a stunning, no-holds-barred eat-that-you-smug-critics album the year after. It happened with Radiohead, from "Creep" to The Bends ; Supergrass, from "Alright" to In It For The Money , and, most notably, with Beck, from "Loser" to Odelay . As thrilling today as on its release, Odelay is the sound of new musical frontiers being opened up: no-one before had thought to arrange a shot-gun marriage between hip-hop and Bob Dylan before and, as the subsequent slew of poor imitators proved,... Read More |
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