Colin Green: Portland Copywriter, Publisher

Online Music Review: Beck and Gainsbourg - IRM

PUBLICATION: Melophobe

CHALLENGE:

To write short, suc­cinct, clever and enter­tain­ing copy in exact­ly 50 words each for an online music magazine.

WRITING SAMPLE:

IRM is a Beck album—with a twist. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s twilight-sweet singing is that twist. Reminiscent of Astrud Gilberto with Brazil ‘66, she is hip yet welcoming. The rest is signature Beck: avant-folk guitars, quirky beats, wonky fuzz, strings, flotsam for lyrics. It’s a Beck album alright: a very good one.