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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Qué ondo Guero? Una sesión de Señor Hansen! “Can you say ‘ass’? Maybe we should change it for the radio…” Welcome to Maida Vale’s Studio Four, wherein a jet-lagged Beck and his jet-lagged band are recording a Zane Lowe Radio 1 session. Having nailed three tracks from new album Guero in a handful of takes, there’s time to jam Get Real Paid from booty odyssey Midnite Vultures, mild profanity notwithstanding. The popular logic of the chattering classes holds that since Guero is produced by The Dust Brothers - Beck’s production team on the hugely popular Odelay – it must mean a return to that album’s kaleidoscopic dimestore funk. First single E-Pro seemed to signal the same – a honky rap à la Devil’s Haircut, riding a jackhammer kick drum recycled from another Dust Brothers joint - the Beasties’ So Whatcha Want.  However, Odelay v.2.0 this is not. Broken Drum’s bruised electronics would have sat easily alongside the bare acoustic soul of last (and underrated) album, Sea Change, while Missing is the latest in Beck’s Brazilian’s reveries. That said, Guero is the sound of Beck having fun - the title track, Qué Ondo Guero, translates as “What’s happening whitey?”, itself an acknowledgment of his refusal to be pigeonholed. Not that any of this matters in Studio Four... “I dunno? Touch my ‘abs’? What do you guys think about ‘touch my abs’?”
James Cowdery
Beck – Guero, out now on Interscope Records.
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