After two and a half years on the road supporting his album "Odelay," Beck and his band were eager to leave the highways and byways behind and get back into the studio.

The result is the lo-fi, live-in-the-studio album "Mutations" which hits record stores this week. Beck won't be touring behind the album or releasing any videos from it, but the record does reveal the softer side of the singer who experiments with everything from bossa nova beats to quieter acoustic songs on "Mutations.

One sonic experiment that will not turn up on "Mutations" is Beck's remix of the Digital Underground classic "The Humpty Dance," but he hasn't given up on it yet.

[article id="1439301"]"I was supposed to do it, yeah," [/article] Beck told MTV News' Kurt Loder of the remix. [article id="1439301"] "I have a list of things that I'm supposed to do. I love that album. It was an influential record for me. 'The Humpty Dance' is probably one of the first raps

that I memorized beginning to end. I don't... that record is just an amazing record. I think it's really underrated. More records like that I think are needed in the hip-hop world." [28.8 RealVideo] [/article]

There will be much more from Beck on this weekend's edition of "MTV News 1515.