Odelay

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Since introducing himself to the world in 1994 with his genre-defying, multi-platinum debut,Mellow Gold,Beckhas blazed a path into the future while simultaneously foraging through the past. Throughout his singular career he has utilized all manners and eras of music, blurring boundaries and shattering expectations with each album. From the world-tripping atmospherics of 1998’sMutationsand the florescent funk of 1999’sMidnite Vulturesthrough the somber reflections of 2002’sSea Change, 2005’s platinum tour de forceGueroand 2006’s sprawlingThe Information, noBeckrecord has ever sounded like its predecessor.

In the fall of 2016, UMe will begin to reissueBeck’sentire envelope-pushing DGC/Geffen/Interscope catalog on vinyl, beginning in October with the trifecta of his 1996 Grammy Award-winning game-changer,Odelay, 2002’s beautiful, brokenhearted,Sea Change, and 2005’sGuero, which sawBeckreunite with the Dust Brothers.Sea Changewill be released as a double LP whileGuerowill be made available for the first time ever as a single LP.Mellow Gold,Mutations,Midnight Vultures,The InformationandModern Guiltwill follow at a later date.

Originally released 20 years ago in June 1996 on DGC,OdelaywasBeck’sbreakthrough follow-up to his platinum bow,Mellow Gold. Selling more than two million copies in the U.S., the double-platinum-certifiedOdelayfeatured classics that loom large inBeck’slive sets to this day, including “Where It’s At,” “Devils Haircut” and “The New Pollution.”Odelaywon two Grammy Awards in 1997, Best Alternative Music Album and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for “Where It’s At,” and wasBeck’sfirst album to be nominated for Album of the Year – the top honor his most recent albumMorning Phasetook home in 2015.

Produced byBeckwith collaborators theDust Brothers,Odelaycontinued to demonstrate and expand uponBeck’seclectic stylistic palette. It was universally praised upon its release, named Album of the Year in bothRolling Stoneand the prestigiousVillage Voice Pazz & Jopcritics’ poll, as well as the U.K.New Musical Express’critics’ poll, where the album representedBeck’splatinum breakthrough in England. In 1998,Qmagazine readers votedOdelayone of the greatest albums of all time, whileRolling Stoneranked it in its 2003 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” and #9 on its list of the “100 Best Albums of the ’90s.”

1. Devil’s Haircut
2. Hotwax
3. Lord Only Knows
4. The New Pollution
5. Derelict
6. Novacane
7. Jack-Ass
8. Where It’s At
9. Minus
10. Sissyneck
11. Readymade
12. High 5 (Rock The Catskills)
13. Ramshackle