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...regretful, sober sensations that come after the big party has ended. But having reportedly broken up with his long-time girlfriend last year, the man has his personal reasons to sing the folk-country blues that fill Sea Change. It’s heavy and heady stuff for Beck, whose past aversion to sticking to a single genre has often verged on goofy musical schizophrenia. Sanity and focus may be unexpected on a Beck album, but it makes for the most heartfelt and satisfying music he has ever done...
...album’s lo-fi AM radio feel is nothing new to Beck, who showed his folk muscle previously on 1994’s One Foot in the Grave and on 1997’s more eclectic Mutations, which up until now were his quietest and most beautiful records. But where the folky Beck of yore lamented empty mining towns, the new Beck wails over empty Kleenex boxes. “You got to drive all night / just to feel like you’re ok,” he sings, with the wrinkled voice and lyrics...
While the album’s touching closer “Side of the Road” is evidence of a healthy, newfound perspective on life, it remains to be seen whether Beck has found a musical groove with which he can finally live. With his ingenuity and boyish looks, certainly more sounds and more lovers are on the way. But for now he sounds pretty comfortable with only his guitar at his side. And you can bet those two will never break...
...Supportkids' aggressive tactics have angered others. The company requires clients to sign a change-of-address form that directs support payments first to its office in Austin, Texas. The company takes its cut and then disburses the remainder. Dan Beck, a radio operations manager in Kearney, Neb., initially agreed to the arrangement. He hired Supportkids to collect the $25,000 in arrears that his ex-wife owed their four children. Then he discovered that the company had taken 34% out of four tax intercepts--money that the Internal Revenue Service, not Supportkids, had withheld from her tax refunds. He managed...