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A beautiful, delicate, sad album that evokes the haunted, slow, rhythmic sway of some of Nick Drake's best music (I'm thinking Riverman in particular). Laden with swooshing, deep, warm strings and strummed guitar Sea Change is not for the Beck fans who don't like him to be unhappy. If you don't mind what mood he's in as long as he's still recording superb music, you'll love this. An absolute stunner.

Rating: 5 out of 5

A beautiful, delicate, sad album that evokes the haunted, slow, rhythmic sway of some of Nick Drake's best music (I'm thinking Riverman in particular). Laden with swooshing, deep, warm strings and strummed guitar Sea Change is not for the Beck fans who don't like him to be unhappy. If you don't mind what mood he's in as long as he's still recording superb music, you'll love this. An absolute stunner.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Beck is the Edward Lear of music. The music is nonsense, the lyrics are nonsense but it sounds so refreshing and can only be the work of genius. Odelay is a classic example of this and so is Guero, a complete pic n mix of fantastic records. This however...
If you played Devil's Haircut to a person who'd never heard of beck, then played this, they would have no idea it was the same person. Sea Change is a warming record which gets you settled into a chair and makes you smile and then makes your face fall with melancholy. The Golden Age is a beautiful song that I could listen to every day. Lost Cause is another wistful sleepy acoustic and songs like All In Your Mind turns on the waterworks.
This is a very moving and warm album. I highly reccomend it. A Brilliant Body Of Work

Rating: 4 out of 5

Skeptical at first listen, I thought Beck was becoming easy listening. I was so wrong! This album is anything but easy listening . If anything it can be hard to listen to. Beck's lyrics are gutting, his plaintive voice makes you want to cry and feel his pain. This is not an easy album to get into. Its about breakup suffering, depression, and loss of hope. This album is a masterpiece, an aboslute chef-d'oeuvre sung by a human being who reminds you that even the mostly deceptive people are not unbreakable....

Rating: 5 out of 5

Beck's a genius. I don't think i've ever played an album so many times over and over, night after night and i'm not even beginning to get bored of it after about 8 months. It's beautiful, it tugs at your soul, you feel it move though you. Possibly my favourite all-round album ever.

Rating: 5 out of 5