Beck did an interview with Pitchfork, and he said he was hoping to release a new album soon: it was recorded in the fall of 2008, but needs some finishing touch. The funny things is that the title was planning to be ‘Rococo’, but since Arcade Fire has just released their album with a song called ‘Rococo’, it will not happen! I think it is odd this same rare word came up for a song and an album,… there was a time when Beck was inventing words, like Odelay, may be he could make up some new word.
But Beck is saying that he is not sure he will release the album or just put the songs on his website. Like Radiohead did for ‘In Rainbows’? So are they going to be free? This is what he said:
‘But I’m sure the music is going to come out. I’m not sure if I’m going to put out 12″s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done. I’m going to try and finish them this summer. It’s just a matter of the songs being good enough and not embarrassing.[…] I mean, there’s not anything stopping it. It’s just getting the right group of songs. I think there’ll be something coming out by the end of summer, even if it’s just a song or two. Maybe it’s a good idea to just get it out there.’
Beck is back to his first raw sound as he said it is similar to another project he has been working on for years which has a weird rap-rock song from 1995 called ‘Inferno’, and left off of Odelay.
His last album ‘Modern Guilt’ was released in 2008, it’s time for something new even with an old sound, and anything will be better than his Record Club session with that insane cover of Yanni’s album.
Since Modern Guilt he has been working on many different projects, like the album he did with Charlotte Gainsbourg and several soundtracks: he did the songs for ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the world’, contributed a song for ‘Twilight’, and a song for the HBO’s series ‘True blood’ called ‘Bad blood’. He must like vampire stories…
Anyway, you can listen to ‘Bad Blood’ here:
It’s a raw and scary bluesy tune like Beck used to make some, with terrific guitars and vocals sung like from underground, a slow paced rhythm, almost as if you were painfully swimming against the current or trying to move with an enormous weight on our shoulders.