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Article: Beck's Modern Problems.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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Why should anyone care about Beck? Isn't he just some 90's holdover gone morose, gone Scientologist, gone lame with the weight of his early successes and the death of irony, that vein he mined so long and so well?
His last two releases, the aimless "Guero" and the overworked yet hollow "The Information" were critically shrugged at and popularly buoyed by the artist's (deserved) reputation, but seemed to have found Beck Hansen short on good ideas or good energy, something for which he was never, ever lacking.
Yet the father of two is nearing 40, at the tail end of his recording contract, undetermined as to his future, and like the rest of us looking at the abyss ...