Beck - “Sunday Morning”
An upcoming addition to Beck’s website known as Record Club will have him hopping into the studio with some friends, covering an entire classic album (without the benefit of rehearsal), and posting one song a week from the session. Lucky for us, he started with a perennial favorite, The Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground & Nico. The first track off the album, one we’ve posted here before, is also the first of the Record Club sessions to be released. And as obvious as it may be, this song really is my favorite song to play on a Sunday morning.
WWTB?
Another week, another batch of Tuneage-approved releases. As usual, all links end at Amazon.
- Beck - One Foot in the Grave (Extra tracks) (Buy the CD)
- The Boy Least Likely To - The Law of the Playground (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- The Datsuns - Headstunts (Buy the CD)
- Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Metric - Fantasies (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Buy the CD/MP3s)
- Silversun Pickups - Swoon (Buy the CD/MP3s) (Artwork pictured above)
Beck - “Walls”
Almost everyone has heard of Beck, so I’ll forego the usual description. OK, that’s misleading; I wouldn’t normally forego the description, but Beck’s a tough artist to classify given the range of his music (from punk to country to new wave and back, all on a single album, and that’s just Odelay).
Beck’s latest album, Modern Guilt displays a more subdued side of Beck with a retro, psychedelic, 60s focus. Modern Guilt should be on everyone’s list of fall albums, and this track, “Walls”, is one of the album’s sleeper hits.
