The Most Beautiful Ugly

The Most Beautiful Ugly is the fourth solo studio album by American hip hop musician Thavius Beck. It was released through Plug Research on September 11, 2012.[2]

The Most Beautiful Ugly
Studio album by
Thavius Beck
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2012 (2012-09-11)[1]
GenreInstrumental hip hop
Length40:00
LabelPlug Research
ProducerThavius Beck
Thavius Beck chronology
Dialogue
(2009)		 The Most Beautiful Ugly
(2012)		 Technol O.G.
(2017)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic69/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Contactmusic.com[5]
PopMatters[6]
The Skinny[7]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

Jason Lymangrover of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying: "Two skills he has mastered in the past, mood and texture, make this record especially listenable, although sometimes the productions are so professionally crafted that they sound sterile."[4] He called it "a great showcase for his digital, beat-oriented productions and kaleidoscopic tastes."[4] Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, stating that the album "has about fifty times as many ideas crammed into it as most hip-hop records, even without his mythic, hallucinatory, Hermetic philosophy-influenced rhymes."[7]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Eye of the Beholder (Intro)"2:53
2."Break Til Broken"2:10
3."ABV"3:19
4."Atmos"4:11
5."Feel Me/Fear Me"2:01
6."Whether or Not"0:52
7."Labward Bound"1:46
8."Terror Byte"3:02
9."Imma Get So"2:24
10."Joy (Bring It)"2:58
11."In Your Eyes"3:24
12."Ain't Nothin'"3:02
13."Tears of Fire"2:43
14."Altered Minions"2:25
15."Shucky Ducky Chuckie"2:51
Total length:40:00
Vinyl edition bonus tracks: The Heavens Bleed Sunshine
No.TitleLength
1."Thanks"3:12
2."Watson"3:03
3."He's a Mute"2:01
4."GLK Jack"3:23
5."Rationalizing Emotion"2:39
Total length:14:21

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Thavius Beck – production, recording, mixing
  • Emilie Quinquis – vocals (13)
  • Mear One – artwork
  • Laz Pit – layout

References
  1. "Thavius Beck". Plug Research. Archived from the original on September 1, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  2. Gompers, Sjimon (August 31, 2012). "Week in Pop: Main Attrakionz & DaVinci, New Animal, Young Gully & Shady Blaze". Impose. Archived from the original on July 17, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. "The Most Beautiful Ugly by Thavius Beck". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  4. Lymangrover, Jason. "The Most Beautiful Ugly - Thavius Beck". AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  5. Ghoneim, Tareck (December 20, 2012). "Thavius Beck - The Most Beautiful Ugly Album Review". Contactmusic.com. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  6. Wright, Darryl G. (October 28, 2012). "Thavius Beck: The Most Beautiful Ugly". PopMatters. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  7. Gieben, Bram E. (September 26, 2012). "Thavius Beck – The Most Beautiful Ugly". The Skinny. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
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