| Product Summary | | Label: A&m/geffen/interscope | | UPC: 00606949339326 | | Release Date: 9/24/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60569257 | | Item#: MPV9QW | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2002 Interscope Geffen (A&M) Records A Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
(C) 2002 Geffen Records
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Beck (vocals, acoustic guitar & electric guitars, banjo, keyboards, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion); Smokey Hormel (electric guitar, acoustic slide guitar, bamboo saxophone, piano); Jason Faulkner (electric guitar); Roger Mannning (banjo, Indian banjo, Wurlitzer piano, harmonium, clavinet, syntesizer, glockenspiel, percussion, background vocals); Nigel Godrich (keyboards, percussion); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (electric bass, upright bass, percussion, background vocals); Joey Waronker (drums, percussion); James Gadson (drums). | | SEA CHANGE was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel: Beck (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, harmonica, piano, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion, background vocals); Smokey Hormel (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, bamboo flute, saxophone, piano, percussion, background vocals); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (electric guitar, piano, glockenspiel, upright bass, electric bass, percussion, background vocals); Jason Faulkner, Jason Falkner (electric guitar, percussion, background vocals); Roger Manning (banjo, piano, harmonium, Clavinet, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion, background vocals); Suzie Katayama (cello); Nigel Godrich (keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); Joey Waronker (drums, percussion, background vocals); James Gadson (drums). | | Audio Mixer: Nigel Godrich. | | Recording information: Ocean Way Studios; Record One. | | Unknown Contributor Role: Smokey Hormel. | | Though 1998's MUTATIONS was the closest Beck had come at the time to conventional (read: non-ironic) troubadourisms, he quickly declared the album a detour and swiftly followed it up with the Prince-influenced about-face of MIDNITE VULTURES. It comes as something of a surprise, then, that he should focus his subsequent efforts on an unprecedentedly earnest singer-songwriter album like SEA CHANGE, which finds him purposefully peeling away his multiple levels of irony. Trumpeted in the press as a post-breakup album, SEA CHANGE has been called Beck's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, and it's true that he'd never been anywhere near this emotionally naked before. | | Sonically, he seems to have (at least momentarily) laid aside his R&B/hip-hop aspirations in pursuit of a late-'60s/early-'70s folk-rock aesthetic. Several cuts have a lazy, Gram Parsons-like country-rock tinge. On "Round the Bend," he delivers a moody, string-swathed lament obviously modeled on Nick Drake's "River Man." While some might lament the departure of the word-spinning wiseguy, SEA CHANGE still seems an inevitable and important step in Beck's artistic maturation. |
Producer: Nigel Godrich |
Engineer: Nigel Godrich |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/24/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 493393 | | Label : Geffen Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00606949339326 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.103)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (10/3/02, pp.97-9)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...A perfect treasure of soft, spangled woe sung with a heavy open heart. It's the best album Beck has ever made....This is his BLOOD ON THE TRACKS." Spin (1/03, p.70)
- Ranked #3 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" Spin (10/02, p.111)
- 9 out of 10 - "...A supremely dainty-assed achievement that jerks real tears..." Entertainment Weekly (9/27/02, p.85)
- "...A beautiful mournful hymn of love won and lost....For the first time, Beck is playing himself..." - Rating: B Q (12/02, p.65)
- Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2002" Q (10/02, pp.98-9)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Very nearly a very great album....brooding atmospherics, reflective acoustic settings, a desert road movie conducted at a snail's place..." Uncut (1/03, p.94)
- Ranked #8 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "...SEA CHANGE is Beck's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS..." The Wire (10/02, p.51)
- "...The mood is muted, constant, studiously introverted..." CMJ (12/30/02, p.10)
- Ranked #3 on CMJ's "Top 10 of 2002" CMJ (10/7/02)
- "...Truly soulful songs....this record is really a spotlight on a man and his guitar....there is a beauty inherent in sadness. Beck is quite clearly intimately familiar with it..." Vibe (11/02, p.154)
- "...Steeped in gorgeous, tear-stained country ballads..." Mojo (Publisher)
(1/03, p.73)
- Ranked #7 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002" Mojo (Publisher)
(10/02, p.90)
- "...There's no trickery here, only transformation..." NME (Magazine)
(9/21/02, p.38)
- 6 out of 10 - "...A rainy afternoon album--quietly affecting, occasionally sublime..." |
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