Single out now: Beck "Disappearing Act"
Beck brings a ray of early evening sunshine into our worlds with “Disappearing Act," an enthralling new song from his hotly anticipated new album, Ride Lonesome.
Featuring a mesmerizing sonic palette crafted by Beck as producer with Nigel Godrich mixing, “Disappearing Act” rides an ethereal wave acoustic guitar and orchestration, topped by sublime and entrancing vocal melodies.
A work of almost subliminal beauty, “Disappearing Act” is the third advance offering from Ride Lonesome, the long-awaited first collection of all-new Beck material since the GRAMMY-winning Hyperspace.
“Disappearing Act” is preceded by Pitchfork Selects choice “In The Night,” and first single “Ride Lonesome,” which NPR deemed “as moving and beautifully produced as any of his most beloved work.” Early critical reactions have been euphoric, with MOJO describing the album as "a stunning display of the alchemy of turning pain into sheer beauty... Strong from start to finish” in a 5-star lead review, and UNCUT asserting the record "weaves a spell... feels deeply true; a rare glimpse into Beck’s inner life."
Ride Lonesome owes a measure of its brand new yet warmly familiar atmosphere to the contributions of musicians with whom Beck recorded Sea Change, Morning Phase and Mutations — Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner— reunited at Room B at United Studios in Hollywood. Godrich, who had worked on Sea Change and Mutations, returned to mix the album. In the decade or so since 2015 GRAMMY Album of the Year winner Morning Phase was recorded, Beck and the band observed a noticeable evolution and deepening of their performance and chemistry, honed by decades of working together. He recalls, "While we were revisiting a musical and physical place, it also felt like we were finding new sounds and emotional textures along the way.”
The complete tracklist for Ride Lonesome is:
- Ride Lonesome
- Run Away
- In The Night
- Failed Words
- Bleed
- Disappearing Act
- For Your Love
- Slow Canyon
- It Ends Right Here
- Falling Through My Hands
- If You Don't Know What Love Is
- Beyond The Light
Ride Lonesome’s release will coincide with the September 16 kick-off of the Ride Lonesome tour at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The tour will make stops including the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Greek in L.A., Red Rocks, two nights each at The Masonic in SF, Massey Hall in Toronto and the Brooklyn Paramount, and more, before concluding October 31st at The Truth in Nashville.
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