Creative rocker Beck recently announced his upcoming album Morning Phase will be released on Capital Records, which will be out in February. This is the first record since his 2008's Modern Guilt. Rolling Stone took a closer look at the artists new project.
Beck recorded a lot of the basic tracks very quickly earlier this year in Los Angeles, but then he went back to figure out how he wanted them and to refine the work.
Rolling Stone gives an insightful description of the upcoming album. "There are combined echoes of mid-Sixties Scott Walker and Love's Forever Changes in the slow bloom of the opening hymn 'Wave.' 'Blackbird Chain,' with its milky jangle and dewy strings, and the plaintive 'Unforgiven' evoke 1968's Notorious Byrd Brothers and the floating introspection of David Crosby's 1971 classic, If I Could Only Remember My Name."
When asked about the similarities between this new album and his extremely well received 2003 release Sea Change, Beck acknowledges the reference, but insists that this is a fresh and new project. "It was going back to the same place," he said, "and seeing where we're all at, like those Seven Up! movies, where they go back and see those people every seven years."
Beck has even made his way through half of the next album set to follow Morning Phase already. The RS story ends by pointing out how proud Beck is to play with the musicians he has in his band. He's very thankful.
"There are few bands like it," Beck said. "It's such a special thing, where everything is adding up to something bigger."
