Beck to Ireland

"I think your music always reflects things in your life," Beck said. "And with this record, it was reflecting a lot of things I was seeing with my friends and in the world. My wife was pregnant from the beginning of making this record, and then when I finished, we had the baby. It was like two babies — one was the album, and one was my son.”

The album has opened to good reviews and contains attractive tunes like “Broken Drum” and “Missing.”