Beck is the epitome of cool gradually over (***) – Parool.nl

09-09-14 11:19 pm – Source: Het Parool

Beck at the Heineken Music Hall © HMH

Review

The latest CD Beck Hansen ‘Morning phase’ is beautiful, but not heart rate increasing. The HMH is actually just a bit too big for an artist who for so long did not show his nose

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Beck

Us verdict: ★★★ ☆☆
Where: Heineken Music Hall
Overheard: 8/9

First, a confession. When Beck Paradiso was at the time of his “Midnite Vultures tour,” I was a little flapper that clip was pressed. Against the stage So that the front of the sweat around hopping singer fell on top of me. Closer could not. Beck, with its bright pink pants and androgynous appearance, was the epitome of cool, I felt like a teenager. And that record from ’99 was so refreshingly different, with its strange mix of pop, r & amp; b and bombastic horns that as righteous ‘alto’ had to admire this chameleon.

from Los Angeles Beck Hansen (44) is from his breakthrough album Odelay a darling of reviewers. He is praised for his versatility, his musical own wisdom, and actually quite annoying for reviewers: Beck can not be captured in a booth. Through his hit ‘Loser’ he was called in 1996 stepped representative of the “slacker” generation, a label where he always has done.

Centipede
Beck started as a street that poor folk and blues songs played. He also was inspired by the hip hop and Latin music of his youth in Los Angeles, where he grew up as the only white kid in the neighborhood ‘. Later, it soul and r & amp b influences in, not to mention electronic music. On each album will find this centipede reinventing itself and he slightly different accents from.

There sometimes is not even sound to it. His latest album, “Song reader, consists only of sheet music. To give. An open invitation to artists their own spin on His most recent CD, ‘Morning Phase’, in comparison with earlier work subdued. As the soundtrack for a first day of spring after a long winter. With a lot of acoustic guitar, piano, xylophone and strings.

New work
He begins his performance in the HMH with a greatest-hits list: ‘Devil’s Haircut’, ‘Black Tambourine’ and immediately ‘Loser’. Anyone who has been waiting for this song alone can after fifteen minutes home. A solid start, but Beck has not played on Dutch soil also seven years and the ticket sales did not storm. The HMH is actually just a bit too big for an artist who for so long did not show his nose.

Unlike the sets he played at festivals this summer, there is more room for new work. Blue moon is a blanket that you want to settle with a warm acoustic guitars with double strings. Around you The recent numbers he alternates with a piece of rap (Hell yes), the dissonant chords of Novocaine, or raw, bluesy One foot in the grave with harmonica.

Difference
This ‘oldies’ highlight how smoothed his newer work is stripped of those unexpected rough edges that made Beck so exciting and placed him at the forefront of innovation . ‘Morning phase’ is beautiful, but not heart rate increasing. After a rippling middle section, he has picked up in the encore, with two songs from ‘Midnite Vultures’: the inflammatory ‘Sexx laws “and the sultry slow jam’ Debra. Does the old idol yet again emerged as

(By: Saskia Naafs).