Beck - Sea Change

I listened to this last night for the first time since I bought it back in the fall. Much better than I remember. Why did I like it this time? I listened to it over and over when I first got, expecting the slow songs to grow on me. They never did. But now, after 3 or 4 months of not listening to it at all, I feel much more comfortable with it. It sounds exactly the way it needs to. Does time play a role in these things?

Part of the problem was obviously the Serge Gainsbourg comparisons. I was all for someone making a modern Melody Nelson but that's not what I got.