Beck / Colors
Artist Beck
Album Title: Colors
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative
Format Vinyl
Released 10/13/2017
Label Fonograf Records/Capitol Records
Catalog No B002678501
Bar Code No 6 02557 17680 3
Packaging Cardboard Sleeve
Tracks
A1. Colors (4:21)
A2. Seventh Heaven (5:00)
A3. I'm So Free (4:08)
A4. Dear Life (3:44)
A5. No Distraction (4:32)
B1. Dreams (4:57)
B2. Wow (3:42)
B3. Up All Night (3:10)
B4. Square One (2:55)
B5. Fix Me (3:13)
Date Acquired 10/16/2017
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 19.84

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Notes

Comes with 2-page insert with lyrics and download card for entire release in digital format
Acoustic Bass [Bass] – Geoff Osika, Nico Abondolom
Arranged By [Album Strings Arranged By] – Beck Hansen, David Richard Campbell
Backing Vocals – Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (tracks: 1 to 3, 5)
Cello – Eric Byers, Suzie Katayama, Timothy Landauer
Cello [Principal Cello] – Steve Richards
Conductor – David Richard Campbell
Contractor – Suzie Katayama
Design [Design Assistance] – Christoper Lee Lyons
Design, Art Direction – Beck Hansen, Jimmy Turrell, Steve Stacey
Engineer – Alex Pasco, Beck Hansen, Cassidy Turbin, Cole M.G.N., Darrell Thorp, David "Elevator" Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin, Julian Burg
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Synthesizer, Clavinet, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Mellotron, Marimba, Organ, Percussion – Greg Kurstin
Mastered By – Chris Bellman, Emily Lazar, Randy Merrill, Tom Coyne
Mixed By – Beck Hansen (tracks: 6, 8), Greg Kurstin (tracks: 6, 8), Serban Ghenea (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9, 10)
Mixed By [With] – Darrell Thorp (tracks: 6, 8), David "Elevator" Greenbaum* (tracks: 6, 8), Tom Coyne (tracks: 6, 8)
Photography By [Cover] – Péter Hapák
Photography By [Interior] – Eliot Lee Hazel
Producer – Beck Hansen, Cole M.G.N. (tracks: 7), Greg Kurstin (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 9)
Viola [Principal Viola] – Andrew Duckles
Violin – Josefina Vergara, Mario DeLeon, Michele Richards, Natalie Leggett, Sara Parkins, Songa Lee, Tereza Stanislav
Violin [Violin (Concert Masters)] – Charlie Bisharat
Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ, Synthesizer, Bass, Glockenspiel, Percussion – Beck Hansen
Written-By – Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin (tracks: 1 to 6, 8, 9)
Published By:
Tracks 1 to 5, 8, 9: Youthless (Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP) and Kurstin Music (Administered by EMI April Music ASCAP)
Track 6: Youthless (Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP), Kurstin Music (Administered by EMI April Music ASCAP), and White Bull Music Group (Administered by Downtown DMP Songs BMI)
Track 7: Youthless (Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP) and Digital Jazz (Administered by Beggars Music SESAC)
Track 10: Youthless (Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP)

Reviews
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AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:

Time was ripe in 2017 for Beck to deliver a "fun" album, the kind of elastic, eclectic pop that was his calling card back in the '90s. The last time Beck truly cut loose was maybe 2006's The Information, which was lighter than either the coiled 2008 LP Modern Guilt or the slow, sepia-toned Morning Phase, which took home the Album of the Year Grammy in 2015. For all of its bustling beats and hooks, The Information carried a paranoiac undertone suiting the age of Total Information Awareness, a subtle political commentary that's utterly absent on the bright, shiny Colors. Recorded in conjunction with Greg Kurstin -- a producer best known for his work with Adele but he is also a member of the stylish retro-pop outfit the Bird and the Bee and has previously toured with Beck -- Colors celebrates its surface, eschewing the very notion that there can be something more to a good time than a party. Given the album's unusually long gestation period -- the recording began in 2013, with the first single "Dreams" arriving in 2015 and the album coming two years later -- perhaps it's a surprise that Colors isn't especially deep but, if that's so, it's also a surprise that the album doesn't seem particularly labored either. Certainly, Colors is busy, bustling with shifting textures and rhythms -- elements that are pushed to the forefront, with Beck's voice being another piece in the tapestry. This isn't to say Colors doesn't serve up hooks or melodies: in fact, that's all that it does, circling through exuberant dance-rock, new wave ballads, mock hip-hop, and candied pop. Unlike earlier Beck albums, Colors doesn't feel like a Whitman's Sampler, as he and Kurstin worked overtime to make sure this all sounds sleek and unified. While that might mean Colors doesn't offer the depth and intrigue of most Beck albums, it does mean it's a fun confection. It's a record that's designed to be nothing but a good time, and that indeed is all that it is.

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