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SE4, EP8: Beck - Morning Phase

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English - February 21, 2024 02:00 - 2 hours - 83.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
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On this week's episode, we discuss Beck and his twelfth studio album, 2014’s Morning Phase. 

Beck is known for embracing a wide-range of genres, to include folk, lo-fi, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia (just to name a few). He often glides between genres on the same album, and sometimes even on the same song. What makes Morning Phase stand out is Beck’s willingness to maintain a beautiful consistency throughout.  Beck has traveled similar ground before with 2002’s Sea Change. Morning Phase is considered a companion piece to that album, even using most of the same personnel to record it. And while they are cut from the same cloth, Morning Phase seems a more mature effort that is lyrically melancholy, yet hopeful, and musically complex and utterly gorgeous.

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