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Beck Responds To The Fast Pace Of Modern Life By Dashing Off An Album [The Last Word]
Published 7/7/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... locks wilt in the harsh light of a damaged ozone layer ('That's where we'll be when we die in the slipstream/We'll climb in a hole in the sky'). And when Beck sings, as he does on the thumping, percussive 'Soul of a Man,' 'Beat my bones against the wall/Staring down an empty hall/Deep down in a hollow log/Coming home like a letter bomb,' Burton makes the ultimate endgame sound like a party you'd still want to be invited to—one that even Beck might enjoy, despite himself." [EW] ...

BECK’S NEW CD MODERN GUILT
Published 7/9/2008 by Miranda Wilding at CINEMATIC PASSIONS BY MIRANDA WILDING
... BECK’S brand new CD MODERN GUILT was released yesterday, July 8, on his 38th birthday. EW has a largely positive review. To take a look, please go here ...

Beck's 'Guilt' debuts at No. 4
Published 7/16/2008 by Chris Willman at Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
... didn't have any major cause for a guilt trip as Modern Guilt, the last album he owes Interscope under his current contract, debuted on the Nielsen Soundscan album chart at No. 4 with 84,000 copies. But there is a certain amount of facing up to modern marketplace realities here: His previous effort, The Information, bowed with 99,000 two years ago, and Guero opened with 162,000 the year before that. ...