Once the lyrical sorrow and apocalyptic visions hit home, Hyperspace is revealed as a bleak, spacey R&B tour de force. My favorite album of 2020 (released late. Through out, Beck gives affecting, soulful vocals. Great songs: driving Uneventful days, southern backhills sound of Saw Lightening gliding, moving See Through Me. The production, instrumentation creates a gorgeous futuristic sounding music millieu. 'See Through' was written and produced with Greg Kurstin. Seven of the albums 11 tracks (including singles 'Uneventful Days' and 'Saw Lightning') was written and produced with Pharrell Williams. The gestation of the album coincided with the breakdown of Beck’s marriage of 15 years. For this listener, this is Beck's best album (so far). Hyperspaces new dimensions in sound are the result of Becks most collaborative efforts to date. Williams initially got in touch with Beck to work on a N.E.R.D. Deep turmoil festers at the centre of these superficially dazed confections, featuring Auto-Tune, multi-tracking, bleached funk, raps and woah-woah-woahs. Hyperspace is the fourteenth () album from Beck Hansen, co-produced by Pharrell Williams. It glides along on lasers, coasts on thermals – until suddenly it doesn’t. VMP Anthology: Miles Davis: The Electric Years is here. Lit by the glow of vintage video games and a kind of hazy west coast liminality, Hyperspace sounds mushily contemporary, at least at first. 'Hyperspace' is the 14th studio album by the singular musical hero Beckcreator of our September 2017 Essentials recordand we have it on purple vinyl. Here, Saw Lightning is a genre-torching bop that harks all the way back to Beck’s Loser days, but it’s a red herring. Beck’s records can often veer away from the sound of their predecessors, but Hyperspace is no minimal DIY folk jam: it’s dewy, plush and on-trend.īeck’s eclecticism arguably paved the way for the bonfire of the genres in the present decade – even phenomena such as Old Town Road. Its sequel finds Beck retaining the marketplace nous of producer Greg Kurstin on one track and adding that of Pharrell Williams, purveyor of cheek-popping flair on more than half the album. album, but Beck seized the moment during a surge of inspiration directly following completion of Colors and the pair ended up recording a body of work together. The vinyl features two unreleased songs, ‘Dark. Hyperspace is the fourteenth () album from Beck Hansen, co-produced by Pharrell Williams. Packaged in a holographic jacket includes new 24-page booklet with AI images and NASA data for each track. Colors, Beck’s last album, won two Grammies. 2020 Deluxe Limited Edition LP of Beck’s 2019 album, Hyperspace, available December 4th The LA native is partnering up with NASA for visual space missions tied to tracks from the album.
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