I've been a fairweather Beck fan since...well, forever. He charms me with a song like 1994's 'Beercan' or 1999's 'Nicotine & Gravy' and then bores with a whole album like 2008's Modern Guilt. It seems like I'm a fan of the synthy and the funky with Beck, but I'm also surprisingly a big fan of his acoustic guitar-and-voice phases too.
One of my favorite Beck moments is his 2002 album Sea Change. A hazy, melancholy suite of break-up songs, the album just glowed with a warm sadness.
His new album, the freshly released Morning Phase shares Sea Change's acoustic, pensive mood. It's a perfect companion piece to that 2002 masterpiece. It sounds like not a day has passed in Beck's voice, still a honeyed boyishness to his weary tones. I'm enjoying it immensely. And some claim I only like synths.
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