★全美七百万张销售肯定 三座葛莱美奖加冕 音乐拼贴美学大师酝酿三年最新力作★ ★「一场紧凑扎实而精彩的节奏游戏！」滚石杂志四颗星高分评鑑 空降全美流行专辑榜TOP10★ ★首批限量收录全辑歌曲音乐录影带DVD 特殊内页还惊喜加赠数十款视觉艺术贴纸★ The New Yorker杂志激赏他是「浑然天成的音乐才子」，TIME杂志赞许他「独特的音乐创意超越所有人的期待」，BLENDER杂志则形容他是「X世代最富盛名的荒谬主义者」…毫无疑问的，Beck/贝克是90年代另类音乐进化以来最具创造性、最兼容并蓄的头号代表人物。在这个充斥没营养的速食音乐文化的年代，Beck天衣无缝的将流行、民谣、嘻哈、电音、灵魂、摇滚、蓝调、乡村、地下…等音乐元素巧妙融合成独一无二、无法归类的独门乐风。 自’94年以首航大作『Mellow Gold』获得滚石、Spin、Q等权威音乐杂志一致评选为年度最佳专辑开始，音乐玩家Beck接连以『Odelay』、『Mutations』、『Sea Change』、『Guero』等佳作带给乐迷一次又一次的惊喜，张张专辑皆获得滚石杂志四颗星以上的超优好评，全美累积近七百万张惊人销量，并赢得「最佳摇滚男歌手」、「最佳另类音乐演出」等三座葛莱美奖加冕，还陆续抱回全英音乐奖「最佳国际艺人」、MTV音乐录影带奖「最佳男艺人」等多项大奖﹔选自去年推出的『Guero』专辑中的"Hell Yes"音乐录影带亦荣获2006年MTV音乐录影带奖「最佳特效」的提名。 再现天马行空音乐拼贴创意的最新专辑【The Information/消息】，是Beck从2003年起便着手筹备的心血结晶，Beck与Radiohead经典大作「OK Computer」、「Kid A」的製作人，同时也是2002年为他製作获滚石杂志满分推荐的『Sea Change』的好友Nigel Godrich再度携手合作﹔滚石杂志继续给予四颗星的高分评价，推崇本辑融合了Beck昔日作品的精髓，是一场紧凑扎实而精彩十足的节奏游戏，发行首週空降全美流行专辑榜Top 10！除了让人拍桉叫绝的丰富音乐，首批发行的限量版本还附赠一张收录全辑歌曲音乐录影带DVD﹔而看似未完成、或是未经设计的专辑封面与内附的视觉艺术贴纸则是Beck的另一项巧思。 by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Beck began work on 2006's The Information after Sea Change but before he reunited with the Dust Brothers for 2005's Guero, eventually finishing the album after Guero was generally acclaimed as a return to Odelay form. So, it shouldn't come as a great surprise that The Information falls somewhere between those two records, at least on sonic terms. Musically, it's certainly a kindred spirit to Guero, meaning that it hearkens back to the collage of loose-limbed, quirky white-boy funk-rock and rap that brought Beck fame at the peak of the alt-rock revolution, with hints of the psychedelia of Mutations and the folk-rock that was the basis for Sea Change. Since this is a Nigel Godrich production, it's meticulous and precise even when it wants to give the illusion of spontaneity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, since it also pulls the album into focus, something that the generally fine Guero could have used. Guero had many strengths, but its biggest weakness was the general sense that it was unfinished, a suspicion fostered by its endless issues in deluxe editions and remixes. Beck embraced these changes, most extravagantly on the cover of Wired, where he was hailing the future of the album, which would now no longer be seen as finished: it would be a project that covered a certain amount of time, the artist would package it one way, then listeners would offer their own spin. That is precisely what Guero turned out to be, so it would have made sense that The Information would run further down that field, particularly because it has a design-your-own-art for its cover and is supplemented by a DVD filled with quick-n-dirty videos for each of its songs. But Beck isn't so easily pigeonholed: as it turns out, The Information is far more of a proper album than Guero, coming fully equipped with recurring themes and motifs, feeling every bit the concept album Sea Change was. Credit might go partially to his collaboration with Godrich -- who is nothing if not a taskmaster, helping to sharpen and focus erratic talents like Paul McCartney and Stephen Malkmus (for good in the former, not as good in the latter) -- but this also feels like the work of a refocused Beck, who shook off the cobwebs by reuniting with the Dust Brothers, thereby getting his "return to Odelay form" notices out of the way, and then getting down to the real work here on The Information, as he tackles the hyper-saturated info-world of the new millennium here.