The genre-hopping hitmaker’s new album fingerpicks the same melancholy heartstrings as Sea Change. You can ask him anything in our upcoming reader interview
News of a Beck album is always cause for celebration, especially when it’s seven years since the last one – 2019’s Hyperspace – but even more so when it’s recorded with the same wrecking crew as the melancholy classics Sea Change and Morning Phase (having originally got together for 1998’s Mutations). That’s Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr and Jason Falkner; Nigel Godrich also joined on mixing. Beck said: “This time it felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened – a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together.”
A first taste of their wares is already available in Ride Lonesome, a wise, almost cosmic ode to keepin’ on keepin’ on, and the serene, fingerpicked In the Night.
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