Monday, November 1, 2010

#218 Beck - Golden Feelings

Inspired by the similar-sounding JSBE from the last entry, I checked out an extra-early Beck album I'd never actually heard.

If you take the well-honed scuzz of Odelay, track the trajectory back to the listenable-if-only-barely scuzz of Mellow Gold, and follow that trajectory into the depths, you get Golden Feelings. Its a strangely brilliant, occasionally unlistenably, totally original spaz out that I'm strangely fascinated by. Despite the outright unpleasantness of some of this, it is such a bold stroke that I'm sure I'll revisit it at least a couple more times, and its at least good enough for 4/5

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