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Andy Price

How Beck and Nigel Godrich’s “simple and clean” philosophy produced one of the best-sounding albums of the 21st century

Beck Sea Change.

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Imagine you’re radically inventive, off-the-wall troubadour Beck at the turn of a new millennium.

You’ve won countless plaudits and a devoted audience by being one of the most creatively audacious genre-fusers of the era. With a penchant for melding hip-hop with lo-fi rock elements, your wry artistic persona is driven by a playful wit. From Loser to Devil’s Haircut, Odelay to Midnite Vultures, it’s a post-modern posture thats strongly jibes with Gen X.

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