Bobby Sichran

Before there was Beck, there was Bobby Sichran. And before -- or, at the very least, at a concurrent time as -- Beck happened upon his postmodern-hipster, cut-and-paste aesthetic mixing pop song structures, folk-rock sentiment, blues textures, and a hip-hop sensibility on one coast, Sichran had beaten him to the combination on the other with his debut, From a Sympathetical Hurricane. Beck became a critical darling and commercial phenomenon, was hailed as a "groundbreaking" and "visionary" progenitor and pioneer, and was even characterized in some quarters as a genius. Similar ...