Sea Change (2007) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Sea Change a score of 3.1751 out of 4

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Stylus Magazine

It improves on Mutations with sparkling variation and a depth of emotion Beck seldom seems to achieve.
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Entertainment Weekly

With repeated listenings, the sluggish ditties transform into a beautiful, mournful hymn of love won and lost.
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Delusions of Adequacy

One of his finest efforts to date.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Beck swaddles the hurt in a lush assortment of elements that would sound like Babel under anyone else's direction.
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Splendid

Its startling brand of dreamlike space-folk, while reminiscent of earlier efforts like Stereopathic Soul Manure, is a wholly unique venture.
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Dot Music

An emotive, often sorrowful work that features his most personal lyrics to date.
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Launch.com

This is beautiful music set in minor keys.
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CultureDose.net

Sea Change is different (and, in a way, less interesting) than everything Beck has previously done, but he has a rare gift that he shares with precious few artists, Prince and Bob Dylan amongst them: no matter what he does, Beck will always be
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Yahoo! Music

Beck has always been the sum of many different parts, often cut'n'pasted together in the most wonderfully haphazard, unkempt and unlikely way. 'Mellow Gold' set the standard, 'Odelay' raised the game infinitely and 'Mutations' charmed with its
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PopMatters

Sea Change, while still a very good disc, is a disappointment in that it marks the first time Beck has ever retraced his steps.
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Pitchfork

Here, as on Mutations, he confuses lyrical simplicity and standard-tuning, key-of-C songwriting with the unpretentious directness of his idols.
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Almost Cool

An overproduced, sapped-down album that sounds really nice but fails to stick.
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Drowned In Sound

Ah, the musical chameleon that is Beck Hansen. After a debut single that blew up all over the place seemingly proclaiming the voice of a generation and a time ("Loser"), he somehow wrangled himself into a deal with Geffen that allowed him to
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