Monthly Archives: September 2026

Rarely do albums come out right on the first shot. Labels reject them, bands disown them, and they get added onto after release. Here on First Draft, we take a look at albums that got cut down or remade and see what difference the changes made.

This deep rabbit hole First Draft concerns the unfinished version of Beck’s 2005 apocalyptically poppy record Guero, which leaked out onto the Internet in early January that year and has been floating around ever since.

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