Beck's been a busy guy over the last few years and it doesn't look like he's going to slow down any time soon. He'll release his 10th studio album, Modern Guilt, on July 8 through DGC.
The disc was produced by Danger Mouse and features a guest appearance by Cat Power on "Walls." At just over 30 minutes, Modern Guilt is much shorter than 2006's The Information and has been described as having a "1960s British vibe." Beck originally wanted the album to be 10 tracks, none of which would run over two minutes, but he later scrapped that plan.
Recording Modern Guilt was apparently intense.
"It was like trying to fit two years of songwriting into two-and-a-half months," he recently told Rolling Stone. "I know I did at least 10 weeks with no days off, until four or five in the morning every night."
You can check out first single "Chemtrails" on Beck's MySpace page.
Beck will play Victoria's Royal Theatre on Aug. 27 and Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre the next night. He'll have Seattle's Band Of Horses with him.
Here's what's on Modern Guilt:
1 Orphans
2 Gamma Ray
3 Chemtrails
4 Modern Guilt
5 Youthless
6 Walls (ft. Cat Power)
7 Replica
8 Soul of a Man
9 Profanity Prayers
10 Volcano
Beck tour dates:
6/25 Arendal, Norway - Hove Festival
6/27 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
6/28 St. Gallen, Switzerland - St. Gallen Festival
6/30 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
7/01 Southampton, England - Guildhall
7/02 Manchester, England - Apollo
7/04 London, England - Hyde Park (O2 Wireless Festival)
7/06 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
7/07 Paris, France - Olympia
7/09 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
7/10 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock Festival
8/22 San Francisco CA - Golden Gate Park (Outside Lands Festival)
8/24 Bend OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater *
8/27 Victoria BC - Royal Theatre !
8/28 Vancouver BC - Orpheum Theatre !
8/30 Seattle WA - Bumbershoot Festival
9/20 Los Angeles CA - Hollywood Bowl ^
9/27 Austin TX - Zilker Park (Austin City Limits Festival)
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