find it on Maniac Meat It’s one of those weeks where there was no one song that clearly deserved Fine Tune Friday, so I have to reach into the reserves: those songs that have been contenders for weeks but always been outshone by something else. “Hex” is one of the most exciting things Beck’s done [...]

Being the belligerent Beck fan that I am, I sometimes find myself going to great lengths to defend his latter day efforts. With 2001′s Sea Change (a top come of age album for me), 2005′s Guero and 2006′s The Information all produced by Radiohead-sixth man Nigel Godrich, Beck choose this year to back-lateral the mixing [...]