Beck – Odelay

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Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram

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Beck – Odelay

Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. Odelay shared a similar collage structure to that 1989 masterpiece, relying on a blend of found sounds and samples, but instead of lending the album its primary colours, the Dust Brothers provided the accents, highlighting Beck’s ever-changing sounds, tying together his stylistic shifts, making the leaps from the dirge-blues of “Jack-Ass” to the hazy party rock of “Where’s It’s At” seem not so great.

Like Mellow Gold, Odelay winds up touching on a number of disparate strands — folk and country, grungy garage rock, stiff-boned electro, louche exotica, old-school rap, touches of noise rock — but there’s no break-neck snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly, the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are. Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than its parts, so while some of Beck’s best songs are here, Odelay is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before.

Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram

 

Beck - Odelay album cover

Tracklist

A1 Devil’s Haircut 3:14
A2 Hotwax 3:49
A3 Lord Only Knows 4:15
A4 The New Pollution 3:39
A5 Derelict 4:13
A6 Novacane 4:37
A7 Jack-Ass 4:12
B1 Where It’s At 5:30
B2 Minus 2:32
B3 Sissyneck 3:57
B4 Readymade 2:37
B5 High 5 (Rock The Catskills) 4:11
B6 Ramshackle 4:47