Beck fans would dig [Simple Kid's] style. The thirty-year-old mixes hip-hop beats, junk-shop acoustic-guitar riffs and patchwork atmospherics in autobiographical tunes about his disdain for celebrities (the anthemic "The Ballad of Elton John") and his bouts with depressions (the mellotron-laden "Serotonin"). Recording on vintage eight-tracks, McFeely plays every instrument himself: drums, guitars, string instruments and sequencers. "I love not having to look at a screen with a mouse in my hand," he says. "With old gear, the buttons are bigger and they're fun to touch. It's like building a clay pot."

Read the rest of the review the September 2007 issue of Rolling Stone.