Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

For all of his stylistic experiments across a career now in its fourth decade, Beck is an old-soul troubadour above all else. Billed as a Valentine’s Day mixtape for its 2026 release, this pack of eight songs—seven covers, one original, two previously unreleased—showcases his traditionalist side without neglecting his crate-digging eclecticism. “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart” pay reverential enough homage to Elvis and Hank, while his takes on John Lennon’s 1970 solo track “Love” and Daniel Johnston’s lo-fi “True Love Will Find You in the End” are dramatically expansive and bare, respectively.