Dialogue
Studio album by
Thavius Beck
ReleasedOctober 12, 2009 (2009-10-12)[1]
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[2]

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,[1] and through Mush Records in the rest of the world on January 26, 2010.[1] "Go! / Away" was released as a single from the album.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBCfavorable[3]
Contactmusic.comfavorable[4]
PopMatters[5]
The Skinny[6]

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."[5] 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."[6] Greg Cochrane of BBC described it as "[an] 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."[3] 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."[7]

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. 1 2 3 "MH-266: Thavius Beck - Dialogue". Mush Records. Archived from the original on May 2, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "MH-044: Thavius Beck - Go!/Away". Mush Records. Archived from the original on May 2, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 Gabriele, Timothy (June 3, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Dialogue". PopMatters. Archived from the original on February 26, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  6. 1 2 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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