Dialogue (Thavius Beck album)

Dialogue is the third studio album by American hip hop musician Thavius Beck. It was released through Big Dada in Europe on October 12, 2009.[1] In the rest of the world, it was released through Mush Records on January 26, 2010.[1] "Go! / Away" was released as a single from the album.[2]

Dialogue
Studio album by Thavius Beck
Released	October 12, 2009[1]
Genre	Hip hop
Length	39:27
Label	Big Dada, Mush Records
Producer	Thavius Beck, Debmaster, Giovanni Marks
Thavius Beck chronology
Thru (2006) Dialogue (2009) The Most Beautiful Ugly (2012)
Singles from Dialogue
"Go! / Away" Released: October 26, 2009[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
BBC	favorable[3]
PopMatters	[4]
The Skinny	[5]

Critical reception

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."[5] 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 said: "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."[6]

Track listing

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

References

1. "MH-266: Thavius Beck - Dialogue". Mush Records. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
2. "MH-044: Thavius Beck - Go!/Away". Mush Records. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
3. Cochrane, Greg (2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue - Review". BBC. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
4. Gabriele, Timothy (June 3, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Dialogue". PopMatters. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
5. Gieben, Bram (September 25, 2009). "Thavius Beck - Dialogue". The Skinny. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
6. Ziegler, Chris (April 15, 2010). "Thavius Beck: Hip-Hop Classic". OC Weekly. Retrieved July 7, 2018.

External links

• Dialogue at Discogs (list of releases)