Album #9

Beck's "Modern Guilt."

Says Rolling Stone: "Co-produced by Danger Mouse, Modern Guilt indulges Beck's love of Sixties psychedelic music, and the results are vividly rendered — all acid-trip guitars, mod dance-party beats, daisy-chain harmonies and thundering percussion. But beneath the DayGlo arrangements lie some deeply bummed-out songs about living in a time of war ("Walls"), environmental degradation ("Gamma Ray") and widening generation gaps ("Youthless"). Danger Mouse brings a hip-hop DJ's love of funky old rock records; Beck brings the end-of-the-Sixties, pre-apocalyptic hangover."

Says Pitchfork Media: "Though Modern Guilt is more direct and consistent than his last two scattershot LPs, it also finds the disillusioned L.A. hippie struggling to balance his deathly outlook with his more crowd-pleasing inclinations."

Says Variety: "Three songs into Beck's collaboration with producer Danger Mouse and there's a sense that the L.A. singer-songwriter is drifting full-bore into a psychedelic classic, a thoroughly modern take on Syd Barrett with production elements that have never been heard on a Beck album."

Says I: "Top Ten Album of 2008!"