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Guero

by Beck

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All Time

of 455,637

1,849
2000's

of 265,899

177
2005

of 37,902

41

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Overall Rating: 3.2264 Guero is ranked overall as 3.2264 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0046 Guero has an avg. critic score of 3.0046 out of 4 stars

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Junkmedia

It's endearingly all over the place, but depressingly self-referential. ...more

The Onion A.V. Club

It sounds like a shadow greatest-hits album, a collection of also-rans offering intriguing variations on past styles. It sounds okay, sometimes even better than okay, but it doesnt stir much passion, unlike even the most irony-entrenched Beck albums ...more

cokemachineglow

If this record had come out in ’94 it would have been groundbreaking. ’98 and it would have been good. But it’s ’05 now, and there aren’t many reasons to be impressed. ...more

Playlouder

So it's Beck to basics then, if by basics you mean chopping things up and funking around. On face value this is more like his Grammy winning 'Odelay' than anything else, which means basically it's catchy and you can dance to it. Go deeper and you'll find ...more

Dusted Magazine

The album’s biggest weakness lies in its arrangements. ...more

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Playlouder

Too often tracks drag us down below the high standard an artist like Beck Hanson has set himself. Red Hot Chili Peppers outtakes with some harmonica and vocoder balanced incongruously on top are frankly not good enough. ...more

DustedMagazine

If Beck has any desire to match the stark and compelling intensity of his lyrics with timbre, hed better take a tip from Waits and strip the arrangements down to the bare essentials; maybe then his increasingly bleak but unified vision will be ...more

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