Dialogue is the third studio album by American hip hop musician Thavius Beck. It was released through Big Dada in Europe on October 12, 2009.[1] In the rest of the world, it was released through Mush Records on January 26, 2010.[1] "Go! / Away" was released as a single from the album.[2]
Critical reception
Bram Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Smashing boundaries within electronic music and hip-hop simultaneously, it's hard to be anything but awed by this album, though it's likely to scare less adventurous hip-hop heads and dance music fans."[5] Greg Cochrane of BBC described it as "[an] album packed with tightly-wound, chunky snares sounds, low chanting vocals and Beck's impressively deep flow drawn over the top like a darkening tarpaulin."[3] Chris Ziegler of OC Weekly said: "Beck combines the overcranked aesthetic of the Bomb Squad with the intensity of a band like Suicide, and you can hear the pixels crack and squelch between gunshots and sirens and Beck’s fearless lyrics about the personal and political."[6]
Track listing
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1. | "Intro/Cracking the Shell" | Thavius Beck | 1:41 |
2. | "Away" | Thavius Beck | 2:20 |
3. | "Go!" | Thavius Beck | 2:24 |
4. | "Money" | Thavius Beck | 2:31 |
5. | "Violence" | Thavius Beck | 2:26 |
6. | "Burn" | Thavius Beck, Debmaster | 2:54 |
7. | "And the Beat Goes On" | Thavius Beck | 2:39 |
8. | "Painful" | Thavius Beck | 2:40 |
9. | "Hardcore" | Thavius Beck | 2:38 |
10. | "IDC" | Thavius Beck | 2:07 |
11. | "Sheepish" | Thavius Beck, Giovanni Marks | 2:32 |
12. | "Transmission" | Thavius Beck | 2:17 |
13. | "Sometimes" | Thavius Beck | 3:35 |
14. | "Pressure" | Thavius Beck | 3:07 |
15. | "4 Part 2" | Thavius Beck | 3:39 |
References
- 1 2 3 "MH-266: Thavius Beck - Dialogue". Mush Records. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- 1 2 "MH-044: Thavius Beck - Go!/Away". Mush Records. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- 1 2 Cochrane, Greg (2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue - Review". BBC. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- ↑ Gabriele, Timothy (June 3, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Dialogue". PopMatters. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- 1 2 Gieben, Bram (September 25, 2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue". The Skinny. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
- ↑ Ziegler, Chris (April 15, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Hip-Hop Classic". OC Weekly. Retrieved July 7, 2018.