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Unlike Odelay, the mix-and-match pastiche of Midnite Vultures doesn't show its seams.
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Narrower in scope than 'Odelay' but more immediate in impact, it's clearly been conceived as an accompaniment to our hedonistic habit of choice, the last great party album of the millennium.
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This album's not a joke. It's too damn good.
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His most consistent and playful album yet.
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Midnite Vultures is the album of a great entertainer, not a great artist.
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As musically dazzling as Midnite Vultures often is, the one criticism that can be still levelled at Beck is that his songs remain strangely soulless, failing to ever really grip the emotions or stir the soul.
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For all Beck lifts from the Seventies, the album never sounds like a period piece; there's always something extra in the mix, stray elements that are both goofy and strangely apropos.
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The startling musical variety amplifies the fact that no matter how aloof, how diffident, how cartoon Beck might be, he's so extravagantly talented that he's already lapped everyone else on that strength alone.
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After the acerbic, introspective detour of Mutations, Mr. Hansen has decided it's time to get his freak on.
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Beck's best when he's tweaking music he has a genuine interest in, giving new humor and affection to his nasty grooves.
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He's given us the year's most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album.
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Think of this sultry record as the night to Odelay's day.
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From start to finish, "Midnite Vultures" is a total party romp of an album.
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It's pretty much just a silly, goofy, fun record.
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An entertainingly excessive album, its libidinous funk mosaic finds Beck coming on like a master of ceremonies overseeing a sci-fi orgy.
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It's a pastiche festival that works in the interest of groove every bit as hard as it does for knowingness and yuks.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 60 out of 66
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Mixed: 2 out of 66
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Negative: 4 out of 66
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Sep 5, 2010
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Jan 22, 2012This album is full of ..... awesomeness
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Jul 17, 2018