General Article name: ODELAY (VINYL/180GR/DC)
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Universal US Number of tracks: 13 Duration: 51:11 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Beck - Devil's Haircut (Album Version) 3:15 2. Beck - Hotwax (Album Version) 3:50 3. Beck - Lord Only Knows (Album Version) 4:15 4. Beck - The New Pollution (Album Version) 3:40 5. Beck - Derelict (Album Version) 4:13 6. Beck - Novacane (Album Version) 4:38 7. Beck - Jack-Ass (Album Version) 4:12 8. Beck - Where it's at (Album Version) 5:31 9. Beck - Minus (Album Version) 2:32 10. Beck - Sissyneck (Album Version) 3:57 11. Beck - Readymade (Album Version) 2:37 12. Beck - High 5 (Rock The Catskills) (Album Version) 4:11 13. Beck - Ramshackle 4:47   Description Description

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 colors, 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. Most of the songs here betray Beck's roots as an anti-folk singer -- he reworks blues structures ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows," "Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle") and rap ("High 5 [Rock the Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but each track twists conventions, either in their construction or presentation, giving this a vibrant, electric pulse, surprising in its form and attack. 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. [Odelay was re-released on LP in 2016.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: BECK Record Label: Polydor Record Label: Interscope