BECK Hyperspace (Capitol) Such laudatory reviews already for Beck’s new album. It must be good. There have been comparisons to his most admired record, the post-breakup Sea Change, which trafficked in more ballads than jerky folk-hip hop, and even a reference or two to his career breakthrough, Odelay, which featured that jerky folk-hip hop - a style that has its echo in a new track, Saw Lightning. (But pretty much no talk of his most entertaining album, and unfettered Prince

BECK Colors (Universal) We do like a return don’t we? A return after a long period of silence; a return to solo work after time in a band, or a band reformation after solo years; a return to a sound that defined you for a large portion of your audience; a return to a tone/mood/attitude. So pleased by this return are we that we can, at least at first and sometime for much longer, elevate material from decent to good, from good to very good, and in our most fevered moments, fro