Beck has announced a new album ‘Ride Lonesome’, and dropped the haunting new single ‘In The Night’ – check it out below.
The record will be his first since 2019’s ‘Hyperspace‘, and comes on the heels of ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime‘ which was released in January and featured rarities, deep cuts, and covers.
Set for release on September 18 via Capitol Records, the album features the recently released single ‘Ride Lonesome’, and comes produced by Beck himself and mixed by Nigel Godrich. Pre-order it here.
Musically, the new record is set to see Beck make a nod towards his folksy, stripped-back acoustic 2014 album ‘Morning Phase’ and his seminal 2002 LP ‘Sea Change’ – with him rejoining forces with the original touring and recording band he worked with on those records.
Today (Wednesday July 15), Beck has shared another preview of the album with the haunting, quietly-intriguing single ‘In The Night’. Check it out below, alongside a video directed by Mikai Karl, produced by Ryan Smale and starring Denis Lavant.
Speaking about the upcoming release, Beck shared: “My new album ‘Ride Lonesome’ is coming out this fall. The musicians from my original touring and recording band that I recorded ‘Sea Change’, ‘Morning Phase’ and ‘Mutations’ [1998] with – Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner – reconvened with me at my favorite studio (Room B at United Studios in Hollywood).”
The singer added that the new music has seen him work with Nigel Godrich again, “a decade since we went in the studio and recorded ‘Morning Phase’.”
“This time it felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened – a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together,” he added. “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 album release comes around the same time that Beck will kick off his North American ‘Lonesome Ride’ tour, which will start on September 16 in Vancouver. He’ll make stops in Portland, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta and more before wrapping up in Nashville on October 31.
Tickets are on sale here, and you can find a full list of dates below.
Beck’s ‘Lonesome Ride’ tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER
16 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
18 – Woodinville, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle
19 – Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium
22 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
23 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
25 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
26 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
OCTOBER
1 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
3 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha
4 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
6 – Milwaukee, WI – Landmark Credit Union Live
7 – Minneapolis, MN – Orpheum Theatre
9 – Chicago, IL – The Auditorium
12 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre
14 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
15 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
17 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
18 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
22 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
23 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
25 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
27 – Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
28 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
30 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
31 – Nashville, TN – The Truth
In the time since Beck’s last studio album, he hinted that he was working on an orchestral record – shortly after playing two orchestral shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall – and also covered Jeff Buckley’s ‘Lilac Wine’ with Arooj Aftab for the ‘HELP(2)’ charity album for War Child.
