Beck - Sea Change (2002) {2012, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered} Repost

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Date: Sept. 5, 2025

Beck - Sea Change (2002) {2012, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 374 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 134 Mb
Full Scans ~ 162 Mb | 00:55:38 | RAR 5% Recovery
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Folk Rock | Geffen Records / Universal Music #UICY-25180

Sea Change is the eighth studio album by American musician Beck, released on September 24, 2002, by Geffen Records. Recorded over a two-month period in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich, the album features themes of heartbreak and desolation, solitude, and loneliness. For the album, much of Beck's trademark cryptic and ironic lyrics were replaced by simpler, more sincere lyrics. He also eschewed the heavy sampling of his previous albums for live instrumentation. Beck cited the breakup with his longtime girlfriend as the major influence on the album. Sea Change peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200, later being certified gold in 2005. It was met with favorable responses from critics, who considered Beck's transition from eccentric, sonically experimental work to emotional balladry to be successful and convincing. The album later appeared in many publications' lists of the best albums of the 2000s, and it remains one of Beck's best-reviewed recordings.

Beck has always been known for his ever-changing moods – particularly since they often arrived one after another on one album, sometimes within one song – yet the shift between the neon glitz of Midnite Vultures and the lush, somber Sea Change is startling, and not just because it finds him in full-on singer/songwriter mode, abandoning all of the postmodern pranksterism of its predecessor. What's startling about Sea Change is how it brings everything that's run beneath the surface of Beck's music to the forefront, as if he's unafraid to not just reveal emotions, but to elliptically examine them in this wonderfully melancholy song cycle. If, on most albums prior to this, Beck's music was a sonic kaleidoscope – each song shifting familiar and forgotten sounds into colorful, unpredictable combinations – this discards genre-hopping in favor of focus, and the concentration pays off gloriously, resulting in not just his best album, but one of the greatest late-night, brokenhearted albums in pop. This, as many reviews and promotional interviews have noted, is indeed a breakup album, but it's not a bitter listen; it has a wearily beautiful sound, a comforting, consoling sadness. His words are often evocative, but not nearly as evocative as the music itself, which is rooted equally in country-rock (not alt-country), early-'70s singer/songwriterism, and baroque British psychedelia. With producer Nigel Godrich, Beck has created a warm, enveloping sound, with his acoustic guitar supported by grand string arrangements straight out of Paul Buckmaster, eerie harmonies, and gentle keyboards among other subtler touches that give this record a richness that unveils more with each listen. Surely, some may bemoan the absence of the careening, free-form experimentalism of Odelay, but Beck's gifts as a songwriter, singer, and musician have never been as brilliant as they are here. As Sea Change is playing, it feels as if Beck singing to you alone, revealing painful, intimate secrets that mirror your own. It's a genuine masterpiece in an era with too damn few of them.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
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Track List:

01. The Golden Age [4:37]
02. Paper Tiger [4:36]
03. Guess I'm Doing Fine [4:50]
04. Lonesome Tears [5:38]
05. Lost Cause [3:48]
06. End Of The Day [5:04]
07. It's All In Your Mind [3:06]
08. Round The Bend [5:16]
09. Already Dead [2:59]
10. Sunday Sun [4:45]
11. Little One [4:27]
12. Side Of The Road [3:25]
13. Ship In The Bottle / Japan Only Bonus Track [3:12]

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