One Foot In the Grave (Bonus Track Version)Beck · 1994

rollingstone

8.0

“Before he was a midnight vulture or a guero preaching the gospel of Latin groove music, Beck was a subversive folkie, inspired equally by Sonic Youth and Mississippi John Hurt. He cut this 16-track set of acoustic folk and country-blues for the label K just before his 1994 breakthrough, Mellow Gold, and its crudely recorded […]”

pitchfork

7.8

“This set of ramshackle folk songs did as much to create the slacker ethos as Beck's more well-known 1994 release, Mellow Gold. It's also almost as good.”