“I don't know if this is Beck's fault or just a result of the overall dearth of any original ideas in rock, but too many artists are getting not only free passes but jubilant praise for merely doing lots of different things pretty well. Beck's heir apparent in the eclecticism-masking-as-bursting-with-creative-energy lineage was Badly Drawn Boy, but the charm that burst from the stocking-capped one'”
