Beck - Morning Phase

180-gram vinyl! Beck's first album of new material since 2008's Modern Guilt!

Featuring "Blue Moon," "Say Goodbye" and "Wave"

"...one of his best: a tenderly stunning song cycle of languid, prairie-dusted psychedelia that recalls Beck's reflective 2002 classic, Sea Change" — David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Morning Phase is true to its title: the beginning of yet another amazing chapter in Beck's peerless career and catalogue. Featuring musicians who have backed him on many of his most acclaimed albums, as well as the current live shows widely hailed as the best of his career (Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Joey Waronker, Smokey Hormel, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner), Morning Phase harkens back to the stunning harmonies, song craft and staggering emotional impact of Beck's most classic ballads, all the while surging forward with undeniable optimism.

"...That album (Morning Phase), his first in five years, is 'California music,' as Beck says before the show, sitting in the garden of his Buenos Aires hotel. When he makes any album, he explains, "I'm just fumbling around with chords and a mood. Hopefully something emerges." This time, he goes on, "the songs are coming out of a California tradition. I'm hearing the Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, Gram Parsons, Neil Young — the bigger idea of what that sound is to me."

"That is an apt description of Beck's trip through the gently psychedelic suspense and warming cosmic-cowboy reflection on Morning Phase. There are combined echoes of mid-Sixties Scott Walker and Love's Forever Changes in the slow bloom of the opening hymn "Wave." "Blackbird Chain," with its milky jangle and dewy strings, and the plaintive "Unforgiven" evoke 1968's Notorious Byrd Brothers and the floating introspection of David Crosby's 1971 classic, If I Could Only Remember My Name." — Rolling Stone

 

Side 1

Cycle

Morning

Heart Is A Drum

Say Goodbye

Blue Moon

Unforgiven

Side 2

Wave

Don’t Let It Go

Blackbird Chain

Phase

Turn Away

Country Down

Waking Light

Customer Reviews (5.00 Stars) 4 person(s) rated this product.

Worth the wait ! posted on 03/13/2014 5 Stars This is a German pressing from Pallas. If you enjoyed "Sea Change" then you will enjoy this new release. "Morning Phase" is one of those albums that grows on you the more you listen to it. Seldom do I play a record over and over like I did in my youth, but this is an exception. This is an album that you can get lost in with repeated listenings. Quiet vinyl, beautiful harmonies, well recorded, wonderul song writing, layers of textures and deep, wide soundstaging.It's obvious great care was taken in the mastering of this record for vinyl. It's been a long time coming .... but worth the wait.

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