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All Music
"And
if you give it time, The Information eventually reveals itself
as Beck's tightest, most purposeful album yet."
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85
Pitchfork Media
"It always used to feel like Beck was years beyond us but,
as The Information attests, the universal struggle is finally catching
up with him. Took long enough."
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69
NME
"In every way he's a child of LA, in all its unhinged, history-free
beauty, all surface and - well, not no content, but a content constantly
reforming and refining itself, chucking ideas around like jacks
in a playground and cackling as they fall. If Beck gets
better as he gets madder, this is definitely his best since 'Midnite
Vultures' - maybe even since 'Odelay'. Here comes the twister."
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80
Rolling Stone
"The Information -- one of the best albums Beck has
ever made -- starts with him going backward. "Elevator
Music" is a mundane jumble of talking blues and hip-hop bricolage
that sounds like it should be on a record called More Mellow Gold.
The rest of The Information is just as dense in its rhyme games,
rhythmic details and overdub antics.."
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80
Stylus Magazine
"With Nigel Godrich in the booth for the third time, Beck spent
over three years crafting the songs for The Information. As
such, it’s not surprising that its musical bedding is decidedly
uneven."
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80
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