This week’s high profile releases are headlined by Beck’s Danger Mouse-produced freakout Modern Guilt. Melissa Maerz says Modern Guilt “indulges Beck’s love of Sixties psychedelic music, and the results are vividly rendered — all acid-trip guitars, mod dance-party beats, daisy-chain harmonies and thundering percussion. But beneath the DayGlo arrangements lie some deeply bummed-out songs about living in a time of war (”Walls”), environmental degradation (”Gamma Ray”) and widening generation gaps (”Youthless”).” Click below for the full piece, as well as reviews of this rest of the week’s biggest releases — including online-exclusive looks at David Bowie’s Live in Santa Monica 72 and Ratatat’s LP3.

• Review: Beck’s Modern Guilt

• Review: David Bowie’s Live in Santa Monica 72

• Review: Ratatat’s LP3

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