Quarterlifeparty

I’ve always enjoyed Beck’s music, got into it from the get-go with One Foot In The Grave and Mellow Gold, fell in love with Sea Change and have dabbled with all the albums in-between. Some say he was starting to get a bit stale with Modern Guilt, but I thought it was one of his better albums in a long time, and enjoyed the psychedelic style he was moving into.

Now, Beck has continued down the rabbit hole into his series of Record Club recordings. The idea here seems to be rawly produced, loose, psychedlic covers of some classic albums. He records an album in a day with guests like Jeff Tweedy, Feist, Jamie Lidell, Nels Cline, and others. They record the songs once and never come back to them, so your getting these songs with all the warts and warbles, which makes it even better and fun to listen to than a highly produced studio recording.

So far the albums chosen have been Velvet Underground & Nico, Skip Spence’s (of Jefferson Airplane) OAR, and Songs of Leonard Cohen. I’ve had all of these on repeat all weekend and can’t seem to get enough.

You can see the videos here. Not exactly sure where you could purchase these as just audio, for more portable play, but you can easily find them to download on the interweb if you look hard enough.

Record Club: Skip Spence “Grey/Afro” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

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