| Product Summary | | UPC: 00602517067172 | | Release Date: 10/3/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202993428 | | Item#: M36HTY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24297 | Format:  CD |
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| | Over a decade of criss-crossing genres makes it easy to forget that Beck's first big hit was, essentially, a rap song. It's not surprising, then, that about half of the songs on 2006's The Information are some shade of hip-hop, house, or dance-floor funk. And while no one's going to mistake Beck for Young Buck, he brings his own brand of intelligent, laid-back confidence to every track, from the stuttering brilliance of "1000 BPM" to the lolling funk of "Elevator Music" to the lo-fi house grooves of "Cellphone's Dead" to the 10 minutes of atmospheric chill-out that close the album.
But the presence of Nigel Godrich--who produced both the most beloved (Mutations) and underrated (Sea Changes) of Beck's albums--insures that this isn't going to be a one-note affair. Godrich shapes the more pop-leaning songs into low-gloss gems, exercising both imagination and restraint: the intensity of "New Round" comes not from big, fancy production but from multiple layers of the same insistent vocal line. "Think I'm in Love" is a sticky little garage-rocker with a hyper bass line, while "Strange Apparition" is a bit of Laurel Canyon folk-rock amidst all the funk & crunk. It's reassuring to know that on his seventh full-length album, neither Beck nor his best collaborator have run out of fresh ideas.
The release comes with a bonus dvd + a sticker sheet to design your own album cover.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: DJ Z-Trip, David Campbell , Greg Kurstin, Harvey Mason, James Gadson, Jason Falkner, Joey Waronker, Justin Stanley, Alex Acuna, Nigel Godrich, Roger Manning Jr., Sean Davis, Smokey Hormel, Steve Black, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Brian Lebarton. | | Recording information: Ocean Way, Hollywood, California (2006). | | Over a decade of criss-crossing genres makes it easy to forget that Beck's first big hit was, essentially, a rap song. It's not surprising, then, that about half of the songs on 2006's THE INFORMATION are some shade of hip-hop dance-floor funk. And while no one's going to mistake Beck for Young Buck, he brings his own brand of intelligent, laid-back confidence to every track, from the stuttering brilliance of "1000 BPM" to the lolling funk of "Elevator Music" to the lo-fi breakbeat grooves of "Cellphone's Dead" to the 10 minutes of atmospheric chill-out that close the album. | | But the presence of Nigel Godrich--who produced both the most beloved (MUTATIONS) and underrated (SEA CHANGES) of Beck's albums--insures that this isn't going to be a one-note affair. Godrich shapes the more pop-leaning songs into low-gloss gems, exercising both imagination and restraint: the intensity of "New Round" comes not from big, fancy production but from multiple layers of the same insistent vocal line. "Think I'm in Love" is a sticky little garage-rocker with a hyper bass line, while "Strange Apparition" is a bit of Laurel Canyon folk-rock amidst all the funk & crunk. It's reassuring to know that on his seventh full-length album, neither Beck nor his best collaborator have run out of fresh ideas. |
Producer: Nigel Godrich |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Beck - The Information - CD Cinema Blend CD Reviews Published on: 10/8/2006 | | The groovy ?Elevator Music? kicks off the album saying, ?One, two, you know what to do?? and truer words are hard to find. The Information is an hour of mellow electro-pop with Beck?s signature style stamped all over it: the droning vocals, the layered synthesizers and sound effects?all the intricacies that make Beck?s tracks so genuinely interesting are present and mastered. He knows what to do, all right, and he?s doing it damn well. ...read the full review |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/03/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 0007576 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517067172 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.126)
- 4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of the best albums Beck has ever made....Dense in its rhyme games, rhythmic details and overdub antics."Rolling Stone (p.105)
- Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "[T]here is a moving clarity to Beck's cleverness..." Spin (p.97)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Beck's twitchy pop-funk has rarely come across as this confident. Consider THE INFORMATION his reanimation." Spin (p.61)
- Ranked #10 in Spin's "The 40 Best Albums of 2006" -- "[A] talking-points primer on just about every phase of his career..." Entertainment Weekly (p.68)
- "[A] swarming, psychedelic set...It's a sonic tour de force, and Beck seems comfortable in the info-storm..." -- Grade: A- Q (p.138)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n other-worldly, psychedelic hip hop mix..." Alternative Press (p.198)
- "[T]his collision of dirty loops and polished pop is INFORMATION you need." Mojo (Publisher)
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- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's nice to hear the first half of this album continues in na earthy, upbeat and funk vein..." Rolling Stone 8 of 10
The Information -- one of the best albums Beck has ever made -- starts with him going backward. "Elevator Music" is a mundane jumble of talking blues and hip-hop bricolage that sounds like it should be on a record called More Mellow Gold. The rest of The Information is just as dense in its rhyme games, rhythmic details and overdub antics. But it is a compelling overload, combining the sample-delic bloom of Beck's best-loved album, Odelay, and the folk-pop introspection of his least-understood, 2002's Sea Change. - David Fricke
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| | Bio | | Beck Hansen, the quintessential California slacker, came up among the lo-fi ranks, pushing a blend of country blues, Dylan-inspired wordplay, punk, and hip-hop. His straight-out-of-the-gate smash, "Loser," made him a star seemingly overnight. Subsequent recordings found him alternately accumulating even more disparate influences in his "mess-thetic" approach (Prince, tropicalia, psychedelia) and scaling down for the occasional back-to-the-roots lo-fi album. By the end of the 1990s, he was recognized as one of the preeminent singer-songwriters of his generation.
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