More details have been released on Beck’s new album, which, as we reported last month, is now finished little more than a year and a half after 2005’s Guero.
Although the exact date is still uncertain, the new album, to be entitled The Information is due out in October through Interscope.
Producer Nigel Godrich (best known for his work with Radiohead) also worked with Beck on Mutations and 2002’s acoustic album, Seachange.
Rumour has it that the album artwork will include a sheet of stickers so that fans may design their own sleeve in a rather special Playdays-esque manner. Reports elsewhere suggest it'll be a blank sheet, allowing fans to drawn their own images.
Beck returns to the UK later this month to play V Festival, and also to support Radiohead in Edinburgh and Dublin. He will be joined onstage by a group of puppets for his entire set.
am sure it will be groundbreaking as all his other cynical attempts to be a 'genius.
ouch
the virgin mary weeps
Although a bit hit and miss
sometimes he has a great body of work behind him and I'm looking forward to hearing the new album
If it's another Godrich collaboration,
it'd be nice if it was somewhere between Mutations and Seachange. Seachange was near-perfect, but could have done with a bit more BALLS.
Didn't his Dad do all the string arrangements? Or is that a lie I've been sold by The Man?
Only on Sea Change
I think his father only did the strings on Sea Change, perhaps Guero too (if there were any) but never prior to that album. Personally, I don't think their styles suit each other and found the strings on Sea Change a bit overwhelming and monotonous, although I didn't particularly like the album on the whole so interpret that how you want.
It'd be nice if he tried something entirely leftfield, even if it fell flat on his face, to show that he's still trying new ideas. I distinctly felt that was lacking on the last album and to a lesser extent on Sea Change too and that Guero offered nothing new and for someone so talented (again, in my opinion), seemed a wasted opportunity.
Yeah,
it would be nice to hear something truly adventurous from him... although, to be fair to the boy Hansen, he's done so much already in such a relatively short career that to expect constant innovation seems a bit churlish. I've always thought it'd be ace if he pushed the 60s kitsch influences apparent in 'The New Pollution' a bit further... but he's more likely to do something completely unexpected, like revealing his love of opera and Chinese Communist Anthems. After all, who could have predicted that he'd briefly reinvent himself as Prince in the late 90s?
one wonders why
you'd read a news article about an artist you dislike so much, Prole.
who says he read it?