Beck is back in his downbeat acoustic zone. Next month, the gen-X icon will release Ride Lonesome, his first album in nearly seven years. Beck produced the album himself, and he enlisted the help of the same musicians who backed him up on his previous old-school singer-songwriter joints Mutations, Sea Change, and Morning Phase — Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner. Beck's old collaborator Nigel Godrich mixed it. Now, we get to hear a lovely new single.
Beck already shared the Ride Lonesome title track and "In The Night." Today, he releases "Disappearing Act," a lush and relaxing track with some real celestial harmonies working for it. Those strings really hit, too. It almost seems unfair that Beck can lock right back in with this style, seemingly effortlessly, whenever he feels like it. Check out "Disappearing Act" below.
Ride Lonesome is out 9/18 on Capitol.
