I am Kyle's self-indulgence

I've long thought that One Foot In The Grave is Beck's most underrated album. Recorded before, but released months after, his break-out hit Mellow Gold, it is a much more quiet and acoustic album that displays Beck's folk roots.

Fans have known for years that Beck recorded a bunch of other material that never made it on the album, and there was some small hope that he would someday return to it.

Finally those tracks have seen the light of day, as bonus tracks on the deluxe reissue of One Foot In The Grave.

The release includes an astonishing 32 tracks: the 16 songs on the original album, plus 16 bonus tracks.

Of those, only three were previously released on the 1995 single It's All In Your Mind (that's the original version, not the re-recording on Sea Change).

Of the remaining 13, one is an alternate version of "I Feel Lonesome," one is a re-recording of "One Foot In The Grave" (a previous version appears on Stereopathetic Soulmanure), but the rest of the tracks are original songs that have never been officially released.

For Beck completists, especially those of us who adore his early work, this is a treasure.