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Reviews > CDs

Published: 2010/06/29

by Randy Ray

Jeff Beck : Emotion & Commotion

ATCO

Jeff Beck returns to the studio backed by a 64-piece orchestra on Emotion & Commotion, which features the veteran six-stringsmith dividing his time between instrumentals and songs with vocalists. “Hammerhead,” a Beck original, is noteworthy for combining a driving riff with the might of the understated accompaniment. Joss Stone guests with inspired chemistry on “I Put a Spell on You” and “There’s No Other Me,” Olivia Safe appears on the carefully measured “Serene” and “Elegy for Dunkirk” and Imelda May adds vocals to a melancholic version of Jeff Buckley’s “Lilac Wine.” Beck has found a new way to express himself—accentuating guitar histrionics on an album tastefully bereft of any orchestral or six-string bombast. Restrained? Yes. Boring? Never.

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Sonia April 20, 2012, 19:03:19

It’s true. Like i’d go to any national park whuiott a map in tow. Maybe we should start geo-cachieng.Sounds like we may have the same arrangement. Monitor, monitor, and try to slow them down, like our parents did. We turned out okay, right?

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