“In recent years, the nonsensical notion of the non-sequential album follow-up has gained a thoughtless acceptance seldom found outside totalitarianism. Most memorably, Beck's crystalline *Mutations* was relegated to busywork status while the distinction of follow-up to *Odelay* was reserved for the vastly inferior *Midnite Vultures*. Record industry muckety-mucks had miraculously succeeded where s”
