JEFF
JEFF BECK needs to round up every snot-nosed pompous, pain-in-the-ass with a few hit records under their belt (or have someone else round them up for him), sit them all down, and play them his new disc,
Jeff. You know the people I'm talking about; the guys who think that having a low-tuned guitar and a few turntables in their band is enough justification to walk around with their peckers hanging out. They need to check out what Jeff Beck, a 59 year-old veteran of the music business, has just crafted with
Jeff. It's innovative. It's punchy. It's current. It's really friggin' good.
This disc is Beck's third in which he mixes his exceptional guitar playing with contemporary electronic music. If you're familiar with his past offerings
Who Else!, and
You Had It Coming, then you know what you're in for, and you won't be disappointed. Beck once again teamed up with coproducer Andy Wright, with whom he worked on
You Had It Coming, and also brought in electronica team APOLLO 440, and a slew of other guest musicians to create thirteen tracks of rhythmic, pounding, guitar-laced techno that will rattle your colon until you crap your industrial strength Depends undergarments.
My favorite tracks so far are the lead-off song, "So What", "Seasons" and "Touble Man", but the rest of the disc is growing on me exponentially faster than anything else I've heard in ages.
This disc has restored my faith (at least for the time being) in the music business. Just when I thought the whole industry was going to fall into one big cookie-cutter, carbon-copy replica of the last crapfest to come around, Jeff Beck releases
Jeff, and shatters the mold (God, that sounds cliche, but I don't care. This is a great disc).
