Dialogue (Thavius Beck album)

2009 studio album by Thavius Beck

Dialogue

Studio album by

Thavius Beck

Released| October 12, 2009 (2009-10-12)[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

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

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
BBC| favorable[3]
Contactmusic.com| favorable[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

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No.| Title| Producer(s)| Length

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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
Total length:| 39:27

## Personnel

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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

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

## External links

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* Dialogue at Discogs (list of releases)

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