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YOU HAD IT COMING
Jeff Beck
(Epic/Sony)
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
Look at '60s guitar god Jeff Beck. While contemporaries like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton revel in nostalgia or embrace the lite-rock demographic, the former Yardbird continues to stay on the cutting edge.
As he did on his adventurous 1999 comeback Who Else?, Beck leaps headlong into the choppy seas of electronica on You Had It Coming, using samplers to slice, dice, cut, paste and loop his staccato Strat licks into hard-hitting, futuristic instrumental soundscapes that skitter along to prime-number time signatures.
And just to show he hasn't abandoned his roots, he includes a blistering techno-Delta blues version of Muddy Waters' Rollin' and Tumblin', voiced by the Bonnie Raitt-ish Imogen Heap. Between his creative ambition and his sheer technical proficiency -- Beck's hammering, dive-bomber solos are still among the best in rock -- this old dog can even teach today's young pups a thing or two.
Track Listing
1. Earthquake
2. Roy's Toy
3. Dirty Mind
4. Rollin' And Tumblin'
5. Nadia
6. Loose Cannon
7. Rosebud
8. Left Hook
9. Blackbird
10. Suspension