L.A. Weekly :: Citizen Beck

I picked up the new edition of the L.A. Weekly Friday afternoon immediately noticing Beck's face gracing the issue's cover with a headline stating "Citizen Beck: Coming To Terms With Our Native Son." I sat down and had a chance to read the interview piece before dinner, and found it a very entertaining read on two fronts: a) the career trajectory of Beck, and where he is now, and B) the ever-changing landscape and gentrification of Los Angeles which Beck has seen first hand.

Later, the piece got me to thinking about Beck and his music. Though a great fan of the earlier albums, I have not picked up, or even heard, a Beck record in it's entirety since 2002's Sea Change (which I really liked), because the snippets I have heard off the more recent releases came across as a pale regurgitation of his earlier, original work. If Sea Change demonstrated anything, it was that there is no need to dip into self parody and caricature. Per the L.A. Weekly piece, I could care less that he is a Scientologist, etc. , who gives a shit - just bring the goods back, man. Beck has a new record coming out - and in a perfect world it would have songs like these on it.

Read: The L.A. Weekly Beck feature here

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