Modern Guilt
BECK
DGC
Beck, one of the most consistently brilliant pop stars of his generation, teams with producer-of-the-moment Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) and sparks the size of mushroom clouds oughta fly, right? Then again, rock history is littered with less than spectacular super groupings and pairings: Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, 90 percent of Willie Nelson’s duets. So it really shouldn’t surprise that Beck’s new disc Modern Guilt doesn’t dazzle.
This article appears in Jul 2-8, 2008.