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Article: Modern Guilt
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- Monterey County Weekly
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- August 7, 2008
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BECK
Modern Guilt
DGC Records
Produced by hot beatmaker Danger Mouse and bearing an ominously portentous title, Modern Guilt raises expectations that its creator, Beck, has no interest in living up to. A moody run-through of the thematic preoccupations that have consumed Beck in this new century, Modern Guilt is the shortest album of his almost-15-year career, and the betting is that while it's not distinctive enough to rank as many people's favorite, it'll hold up pretty nicely in the canon.
That's provided, of course, that you like the direction he's taken recently. Shaking off the overly orchestrated romantic doldrums of 2002's Sea Change, Beck has bounced back with two albums that speak ...