Guerolito

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.

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…

Check out our album review of Artist's Guerolito on Rolling Stone.com.

When all is said and done, Beck's Guero might be the quintessential album of 2005.

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.