Rap
March, 1999
On 1996's Odelay, Beck catapulted into platinum sales with a detached mix of hip-hop–sampling folk, and was lauded as a champion of postmodern irony and indirection. It's understandable, then, that his fans regard Mutations (DGC) as a throwaway. Postmodern it ain't. With Beck singing and playing over a gentle studio pickup band that rarely uses a synthesizer, this is folk-rock, pure and simple. It sounds as if he's keeping up with the times when folk roots are being reimagined all the way back t...
