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After a myriad of Instagram teasers, Beck has officially shared his new single “Wow”.

According to a press release (via iHeartRadio), the track is taken from his upcoming as-yet-untitled album, due out on October 21st. It features production from Greg Kurstin (Sia, The Shins).

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Nice surprise on a bleak day...Thanks Beck!

Definitly old skool Beck with a killer hook! Diggin it!

This is the Beck I like.

Mad as a box of frogs!

I thought he was singing about an illuminous moose for a minute there.

and here is Beck covering Prince....

thedoorkeeper said:

Not until October Fuck torture me he does

i know, right! it's been too long. i'm thirsty for some new electro hip hop folk'n'glitch fusion

after prince, beck has been my favorit artist since the late 90s. love the dude, in all his different
styles and guises.

classy dude

thedoorkeeper said:

Not until October
Fuck
torture me he does

It's the drum beat from Snoop Dogg's "Drop it like it's hot".

You can't go wrong with that beat.

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[Edited 6/2/16 23:44pm]

dancerella said:

thedoorkeeper said:

Not until October Fuck torture me he does

Right? I'm all kinds of frustrated now. This shit is bumpin. I need more of this sooner rather than later.

i want to listen to it again, but i also don't want to. the reason i've only listened to
"dreams" about three times is the same, i don't want to spoil the album experience.

but damn it this album has been gestating since forever. originally to be released
the same year as "morning phase", it probably went through a lot of changes along
the way though.

still, it's beck, he's bound to deliver a great album.

peedub said:

Might I suggest that, in the interval, Greg kurstin's 'action figure party' and Beck's 'song reader' albums are both excellent listens...still, October seems a long way off.

plus, i'm still enjoying "wide open" by the chemical brothers featuring beck on vocals a LOT.
that track is so sublime, good lord!

also, last week beck's feature on flume's album skin, called "tiny cities" was released

I do wish his lyrics said more. The tune is somewhat bumpin.

I've been waiting for this album for a long time now I remember reading about it just after Morning Phase came out and talking to a girl I was into, Summer '14. Now it's Summer '16, we're going on two years together and Beck dropped the second single off the record. I can dig it

Dreams was a great single. When that dropped, I immediately threw it onto my Summer/Beach playlist and it got played constantly for the entire summer. Wow sounds like it'll be played just as much. I just wish the album was coming out sooner. From what we've heard from it, I bet it would be a killer summer album.

peedub said:

Might I suggest that, in the interval, Greg kurstin's 'action figure party' and Beck's 'song reader' albums are both excellent listens...still, October seems a long way off.

Be careful with Song Reader. I ended up buying the book, and because I'm rubbish on guitar I ended up buying a keyboard to try and play the songs!

There are loads of versions of the songs on on YouTube. I'd particularly recommend Portland Cello Project, Patrick Watson and Unplugged 7X.

It's a brilliant idea, I hope there will be a Song Reader 2.

Ferret said:

Beck Plays Energetic, Sophisticated Set at Mountain Jam

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We’ve seen some truly amazing music at Mountain Jam so far, from Jason Isbell‘s heart-wrenching set to Courtney Barnett‘s howling rock. (Even Train’s Led Zeppelin cover set was pretty fun.) But for full on entertainment value, no one beats Beck.

On the most basic level, it was exciting to hear songs that were often meticulously developed in a studio environment come to life so viscerally via a five-piece band. Thanks in part to very carefully arranged backing tracks, the songs were fully rounded out and powerful. The riff on “E-Pro” could have sawed a skyscraper in half. “Dreams,” the single Beck released last summer, was pure thrill. (Oddly, he didn’t play “Wow,” the single he released just three days ago.) On “Que Onda Guero,” he proved he can still rap and flail his arms like a lanky, funky nerd.

But even with all the energy, the performances stayed true to the compositional elegance of the original tracks. (Beck can write a bridge better than anyone. Every time we hear the “Cut me down to size” bridge of “Blue Moon,” we wanna cry.) “Sexx Laws,” for instance, has a ton going on behind the scenes, full of layers of harmony and sudden modulations. Their cover of “Raspberry Beret” moved lightly despite its musical volume. The band owned it. It sounded like it could have been a cut off Guero.

Subtle musical sophistication isn’t the only thing Beck has in common with Prince. Beck presents himself like the pop legend he deserves to be. He wears a wide-brimmed hat and a wine colored shirt and suit jacket that place him somewhere between Michael Jackson and Leonard Cohen. (He’s got a bit of the dance moves of Jackson and the monotone of Cohen, but then again, not too much of either.) He doesn’t use the stage as a place to air out all his new material; he does a set that presents his best and best-known songs pristinely, altered only in that they’re bolstered in depth and sheer volume. He’s not above doing “Loser,” and he does it with gusto, waving his arms in the air.

The couple next to us were basically watching his set because they were Prince fans and heard he was doing a couple covers, but they were thoroughly entertained through the entire run of the show despite not knowing any of his music. This is essentially what makes Beck such a satisfying interpreter of other artists’ songs; you know whatever he does, he’s going to do his damnedest to make it sound good.

Beck almost seems less like a straight-up artist than just a good host. We felt like he wanted to reach out and touch us. He said he felt really comfortable and wanted to play all night, and even though we’re sure he says at every show, we sort of believed him. The thing about the main stage at Mountain Jam is that it’s huge. Big headline artists can get swallowed up by it. As an artist, you have to be actively reach out to the faces in the crowd to overcome all that space. That’s part of what made Beck’s encore version of “Where It’s At” such a joyful experience. He skipped around the stage. He sat down on his amps and kicked his feat. In the middle of the song, he introduced each member of his band and let them lead little riffs on David Bowie, Kraftwerk, and more Prince. Then they segued back into “Where It’s At” — energetic, precise, perfect.

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One artist who also overcame the vastness of the main stage space who is totally worth mentioning here: Nathaniel Rateliff, and his band the Night Sweats. We knew everyone was going to go nuts when the band broke into “S.O.B.,” their breakout hit. But it felt particularly special yesterday; the band’s vintage ’60s soul and Rateliff’s gargantuan voice brought some much needed sunshine to a largely overcast day.

The band itself is a blast to watch. Trumpeter Wesley Watkins is a total ball of energy. At one point, Rateliff slammed a tambourine into the ground, making it basically explode. The Night Sweats even sandwiched a rollicking take on the Band‘s “The Shape I’m In” into the middle of “S.O.B.” Rateliff got so worked up, he commanded everyone in the audience to vote for Bernie Sanders, and said he was happy that “after years of frustration touring and nobody giving a sh– about what we were doing” he’d finally found his audience. We were grateful, too.

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Nivivrus said:

I've been waiting for this album for a long time now I remember reading about it just after Morning Phase came out and talking to a girl I was into, Summer '14. Now it's Summer '16, we're going on two years together and Beck dropped the second single off the record. I can dig it

Dreams was a great single. When that dropped, I immediately threw it onto my Summer/Beach playlist and it got played constantly for the entire summer. Wow sounds like it'll be played just as much. I just wish the album was coming out sooner. From what we've heard from it, I bet it would be a killer summer album.

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agree with all this, have listened to dreams loads and with wow seems like i will do the same this summer. looking forward to the new album which i hope doesn't get held up for another year or two.

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is it confirmed that these songs will actually feature on it though? previous singles like timebomb never made it onto an album

His albums sound like bootlegs.

2freaky4church1 said:

His albums sound like bootlegs.

is that a good thing or a bad thing?

but not all albums though. midnite vultures, sea change, guero, the information and morning phase

all sound incredibly well crafted and well produced. the other ones have more grit, true. but even an
album like mutations which is deceptively uncomplicated is produced my nigel godrich, whom is imo
one of the very best producers of the past 25 years.