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Sea Change
by Beck
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Overall Rating:
3.2760
Avg. Critic Score:
3.1751
Sea Change Rank 4 Reviews
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Rolling StoneA perfect treasure of soft, spangled woe sung with a heavy open heart.... It's the best album Beck has ever made. ...more
E! OnlineMany of these harrowing tunes, like "Lonesome Tears" and "Guess I'm Doing Fine" have the lonely blues feel of Beck's similar-sounding Mutations, and they definitely get better with repeated play. ...more
Rolling StoneIn 1994, Beck Hansen released his first major-label album. He called itMellow Gold, and we all laughed at the irony: slacker caricature and coffeehouse hip-hop billed like a K-tel makeout platter.But Sea Change, his eighth album, is the real thing -- ...more
Slant MagazineIf the current buzz surrounding Beck's eighth album is to be believed (and it should), the pioneering artist has just created his greatest recording to date. From the first doleful guitar twang of "The Golden Age," you know you're not in Beck's ...more
The Daily Vault Album ReviewsWith the exception of Bob Dylan, no other contemporary artist has worn so many guises in recent memory as Beck. He has played the "one-hit wonder" boy when he released "Loser," he played earnest country-rocker with his bootlegs, namelyOne Foot In ...more
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Stylus MagazineIt would be an unfair to start this review without a disclaimer. Iâm an old school Beck fan, I was drawn intoMellow GoldandStereopathetic Soul Manureâs chaotic, fragmented and thoroughly warped glee, the humor and manic pastiche ...more
CDNowCertainly his most personal record, arguably his best. ...more
BillboardBeck has rarely performed with such maturity and confidence, breathing a rich, often haunting baritone into songs that seem to follow a plotline thread of despair after the end of a relationship. ...more
Neumu.netSea Change not only signals a pinnacle in his career but may just be remembered, in an environment fueled by accelerating cycles of disposable culture, as one of this young decade's best records. ...more
Dusted MagazineFor the first time in his career he has made an album that is clearly not a product of “Beck”, the single-syllabled entertainer, but rather that of “Beck Hansen”, the person. ...more
PrefixMagIt's a miserable, rainy, gray afternoon in New York. Beck is so miserable. Sea Change is near perfect. Listening to his voice, stripped of electronic distortions and missing any smirk of irony, it seems almost naked. How can anyone listen to ...more
ShakingThrough.netHow's this for an unfair deal: famous recording artist and not as well-known girlfriend break up. The recording artist gets to tell his side of the story through music, while the ex-lover has no such forum at her disposal. A recipe for bitterness ...more
All Music GuideWhat's startling about Sea Change is how it brings everything that's run beneath the surface of Beck's music to the forefront, as he's unafraid to not just reveal emotions, but to elliptically examine them in this wonderfully melancholy song cycle. ...more
All Music GuideBeck has always been known for his ever-changing moods -- particularly since they often arrived one after another on one album, sometimes within one song -- yet the shift between the neon glitz ofMidnite Vulturesand the lush, somberSea ...more
Austin ChronicleSea Change joins Weezer's Maladroit and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' By the Way on the list of beautiful-but-sad 2002 L.A. LPs. ...more
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