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Guero
by Beck
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Overall Rating:
3.2264
Avg. Critic Score:
3.0046
Guero Rank 3 Reviews
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BBC MusicThis is an album covering a fair amount of ground, taking in breaks and funk at one end, through infectious pop and out to the kind of noise thats somewhere on the path to post-rock. ...more
Stylus MagazineBeck has shed himself of Sea Change’s need to shelter himself in his songs. We have our urban craftsman back, to stir the dust in sampled record grooves and unearth for us, again and again, the new in the old and vice versa. ...more
StylusMagazineWe thought we knew you, Beck. And then you showed up moaning over dark satin strings and crisp Godrich production. ...more
Rolling StoneHis liveliest and jumpiest music in years. ...more
Lost At SeaOne must realize that this album was created to be fresh but not necessarily edgy. The difference means that the effort is intended to be highly enjoyable but not breakthrough material. ...more
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Flak MagazineOne of Beck's most admirable traits is that when he tries on a new culture, he makes fun of his effort louder than anyone else can. ...more
Dot Music"Guero" proves that the old, post-modern magic still works. ...more
New York MagazineBeck integrates his personae into a fairly seamless whole, and his knack for synthesizing disparate musical elements (hip-hop, robot funk, blues, country, jazz, garage rock, etc.) extends beyond samples and individual tracks. The songs migrate smoothly ...more
Tiny Mix TapesIt's probably best that the album we've been waiting so long to hear is as safe as Guero is. At this point we just want our Beck, and Guero is as Beck as Beck can be. ...more
The GuardianGuero's easy, confident flow makes it easy to underrate but, despite his reputation as a slacker, Beck's biggest weakness has always been trying too hard. It's good to hear him so happy in his own clothes. ...more
Drowned In Sound'Guero' contains several familiar sounds merely repackaged and freshened up - remnants of the party album mentality of 'Midnite Vultures' sit next to the eclecticism of 'Odelay' and the folk sensibilities of 'Mutations'. What negates this is the ...more
Rolling StoneAfter the final out of the 2004 World Series, NBC played Beck's "The Golden Age" during the closing credits. It was a weird choice -- they obviously picked the song to celebrate the Red Sox victory, judging it by the title but ignoring the fact ...more
nme.comThere are some who believe that, in pop music, wilful eclecticism is a good thing. That hopping from style to style is the way to make great records. These people are wrong. Eclecticism is the enemy of pop music. Stylistic magpies do not make ...more
RollingStoneOn Guero, his eighth album, he returns to what he does best, hopping from genre to genre, hustling for scraps of beat and rhyme. ...more
All Music GuideA thoroughly enjoyable LP that sounds warm and familiar upon the first play and gets stronger with each spin. ...more
The Austin ChronicleSomewhere between 1996'sOdelayand the newGuero, Beck made a lot of friends that know a thing or two about programming. With the Dust Brothers dropping the beats and the fair-haired one providing the flow,Guerois a far cry from the ...more
PopMattersOn one level, Guero is the quintessential Beck album, incorporating aspects of everything he's done.... Yet in tone these songs all carry with them the heaviness of Sea Change. ...more
Paste MagazineWhile it lacks the churn or drama of his earlier work or the dour intensity of Sea Change, it’s an album remarkable in its consistent, pleasant above-averageness, punctuated by bursts of true genius. ...more
Village VoiceBeck's sampler-songwriter m.o. feels freshest on songs evoking some version, real or imaginary, of Southern California. ...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. ...more
No RipcordGuero is a record with lots of great ideas and some very good songs... but I can't help thinking that there's just something missing from this release. ...more
Billboard"Guero" explores all of Beck's influences and revisits so many of his finer ideas. It's not the cheeky soul-funk orgy of "Midnite Vultures," but something more mature. ...more
Slant MagazineFor his eighth album,Guero, Beck reunites with the Dust Brothers, the production team that helped makeOdelaya masterpiece of perfected pop-cult clutter. The Brothers (not really brothers at all, but friends Mike Simpson and John King, the ...more
PrefixMag“Where you goin’, white boy?” Beck asks on “Que Onda Guero” from his eighth full-length, Guero . We’re tempted to ask the same. Since releasing the generation-defining Mellow Gold in 1994, Mr. Hansen has flirted ...more
ShakingThrough.netGuero is all over the map but the majority of its detours simply aren’t worth the trip. ...more
Austin ChronicleGuero isn't exactly Odelay. It's more like a photo album tracing the phases in Beck's musical career. ...more
PitchforkMany of the songs appear to be little more than weak echoes of their similar predecessors. ...more
Pitch Fork MediaPATIENT PROGRESS ASSESSMENT: MARCH 2005 Subject: Beck Hansen, 35 years old, Caucasian Medical History: Physically, subject's health is good; no major or chronic issues, although voice suggests persistent sinusitis. Psychologically, Mr. Hansen shows ...more
Neumu.netThere is nothing here that thrills with its audacity, beauty, beat or lyrics. Instead, we are given a solid batch of songs that for any other artist would be a crowning achievement, but for Beck is just mediocre. ...more
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