There may be no artist today as creative, inventive, and genre-defying as Beck. Although his greatest radio success was with songs from Odelay, Mutations was a better conceived and impeccably accomplished album, and Midnite Vultures was a further leap beyond that. It is simultaneously the perfect party album and a masterpiece that music fans can spend hours dissecting, investigating, and mining for the nuggets of golden song-writing hidden in the lyrical whimsy and melodic dance-ability. One has to go back to Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles to find a comparison. A must-have.
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