Forest for the Trees

Forest for the Trees is the brainchild of Carl Stephenson, the co-writer/producer of Beck's "Loser" single, as well as much of Beck's DGC full-length debut, Mellow Gold. Around the time "Loser" began its rapid rise to the upper reaches of the pop singles chart in 1993, Stephenson had completed the majority of what would later be released in 1997 as the self-titled Forest for the Trees album. In 1993, Stephenson began to obsessively tinker and fiddle with the album's contents, and then he suffered a nervous breakdown that took him out of commission until 1997. By this time, he ...