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2009 studio album by Thavius Beck
Dialogue
Studio album by Thavius Beck
ReleasedOctober 12, 2009 (2009-10-12)
GenreHip hop
Length39:27
Label
Producer
Thavius Beck chronology
Thru
(2006)
Dialogue
(2009)
The Most Beautiful Ugly
(2012)
Singles from Dialogue
  1. "Go! / Away"
    Released: October 26, 2009

Dialogue is the third solo studio album by American hip hop musician Thavius Beck. It was released through Big Dada in Europe on October 12, 2009, and through Mush Records in the rest of the world on January 26, 2010. "Go! / Away" was released as a single from the album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBCfavorable
Contactmusic.comfavorable
PopMatters
The Skinny

Timothy Gabriele of PopMatters gave the album 6 stars out of 10, stating that "Beck's lyrics are presented in rapid-fire succession with a fairly straightforward style and delivery, like a laser-tongued Del the Funky Homosapien." Bram Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Smashing boundaries within electronic music and hip-hop simultaneously, it's hard to be anything but awed by this album, though it's likely to scare less adventurous hip-hop heads and dance music fans." Greg Cochrane of BBC described it as " album packed with tightly-wound, chunky snares sounds, low chanting vocals and Beck's impressively deep flow drawn over the top like a darkening tarpaulin." Chris Ziegler of OC Weekly commented that "Beck combines the overcranked aesthetic of the Bomb Squad with the intensity of a band like Suicide, and you can hear the pixels crack and squelch between gunshots and sirens and Beck's fearless lyrics about the personal and political."

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Intro/Cracking the Shell"Thavius Beck1:41
2."Away"Thavius Beck2:20
3."Go!"Thavius Beck2:24
4."Money"Thavius Beck2:31
5."Violence"Thavius Beck2:26
6."Burn"
  • Thavius Beck
  • Debmaster
2:54
7."And the Beat Goes On"Thavius Beck2:39
8."Painful"Thavius Beck2:40
9."Hardcore"Thavius Beck2:38
10."IDC"Thavius Beck2:07
11."Sheepish"2:32
12."Transmission"Thavius Beck2:17
13."Sometimes"Thavius Beck3:35
14."Pressure"Thavius Beck3:07
15."4 Part 2"Thavius Beck3:39
Total length:39:27

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Thavius Beck – vocals, production
  • D-Styles – turntables (3)
  • Daddy Kev – additional drum programming (5, 10, 12)
  • Debmaster – production (6)
  • Giovanni Marks – production (11)
  • Omar Ghaznavi – guitar (12)
  • Sonny Kay – layout, design
  • Angela Gomez – photography

References

  1. ^ "MH-266: Thavius Beck - Dialogue". Mush Records. Archived from the original on May 2, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  2. ^ "MH-044: Thavius Beck - Go!/Away". Mush Records. Archived from the original on May 2, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Cochrane, Greg (2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue - Review". BBC. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  4. Ghoneim, Tareck (November 18, 2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue Album Review". Contactmusic.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  5. ^ Gabriele, Timothy (June 3, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Dialogue". PopMatters. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  6. ^ Gieben, Bram (September 25, 2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue". The Skinny. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  7. Ziegler, Chris (April 15, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Hip-Hop Classic". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on July 16, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.

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