Guerolito
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Album • Jan 01 / 2005 • 19 songs, 1h 13m 26s
Electronic
Popular
6.2
/ 10
Track-by-track Guero remix album features nine previously unreleased mixes and contributions from Air, Boards of Canada, Diplo, Islands, and El-P, among others.
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Beck took a partially deserved drubbing for Guero, the first album of his career that seemed self-consciously concerned about learning from his own past. But had Guero been released free of context and expectations—listeners' and Beck's alike—it would have worked better: It doesn't have Odelay's stem-to-stern…
Fortunately, the reworking of Beck’s all too overlooked ‘Guero’, the aptly titled ‘Guerolito’, is a jewel in the genre - mainly thanks to the fine choice of artists handpicked by the main man himself.