From Rolling Stone · Jon Dolan · · 1m 10s
Beck returns with somber folk-rock masterpiece
After seven years away, Beck channels Nick Drake and Laurel Canyon on his most emotionally committed album yet.
In brief
After seven years away, Beck channels Nick Drake and Laurel Canyon on his most emotionally committed album yet. Beck's new album Ride Lonesome marks a return to the introspective folk-rock sound of his best work, with gorgeous melodies and deeply personal lyrics. Originally reported by Rolling Stone.
Beck returns after seven years
Beck's first album in seven years, Ride Lonesome, marks a sublime return to the somber folk-rock sound of his career highpoints.
Echoes of Sea Change and Morning Phase
The album recalls Beck's 2002 masterpiece Sea Change and 2014's Morning Phase, two of his most introspective and emotionally resonant works.
Nick Drake meets Laurel Canyon
Ride Lonesome combines fragile acoustic melodies with desolate lyrics and spare studio accompaniment, evoking Nick Drake's folk masterpiece Bryter Layter.
Gorgeous melodies against existential blues
Beck deploys beautiful melodies as a balm against his hangdog existential blues, sounding more committed to emotional vulnerability than in years.
“You've got to cry a river”
A lovelorn Laurel Canyon poet
The album captures the spirit of a lovelorn Laurel Canyon soft-rock poet, moving Beck away from the jokey postmodern irony of his earlier work.
The one thing
Beck's new album Ride Lonesome marks a return to the introspective folk-rock sound of his best work, with gorgeous melodies and deeply personal lyrics.
