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LONDON – “It’s absolutely surreal that it’s assuredly out,” Allure Hansen says of his 13th album, “Colors.” “It’s the longest time from birth to absolution I’ve anytime had. It’s been like a rebirth.”
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Beck knows a activity or two about renewals. As addition rock’s shape-shifting outlier, the 47-year-old has consistently sidestepped expectation. From his aboriginal and adventitious Gen X-defining slacker canticle “Loser” (1994) to his sun-kissed black Grammy Award-winning anthology “Morning Phase” (2014), Allure has beat abounding masks: acrid agreeable babbler (“Odelay,” 1996), carnal funkateer (“Midnite Vultures,” 1999), abandoned balladeer (“Sea Change,” 2002). He’s accounting for film, collaborated with pop ability (Lady Gaga, P!NK) and sang onstage with Taylor Swift. David Bowie was an admirer, although alike pop’s ultimate chameleon never appear an anthology of area music, like Beck’s 2012 book “Song Reader,” and encouraged admirers to accomplish their own versions of accustomed tracks.
Beck speaks to me from Los Angeles. In chat he has a decidedly abysmal chant and is measured, occasionally laconic. “Colors” is the absolute opposite. Representing Beck’s aboriginal apparent attack into sleek, shiny, animated pop music, it is yet addition left-field transition.
“I anticipate I’ve had glimpses of it in the past,” he says, “but I capital that complete for a accomplished record.” If “Morning Phase” was ageless, “Colors” exists in the actuality and now: Its cyberbanking beats and athrill choruses aren’t agitated about tomorrow; it wants to get bottomward tonight.
If all this sounds throwaway, the album’s evolution was painstaking. When he sheepishly accustomed the best anthology Grammy from Prince in 2015 (only to be disrupted by a rather beneath abashed Kanye West agitation Beyonce’s loss) Allure was already two years into creating “Colors.”
“I acquainted actual acerb a few years ago I capital to put out article which had a lot of light, accuracy and energy, like a behemothic absolute beachcomber of sound. That’s what I was fatigued to,” he says. “We’d been accoutrement Michael Jackson, Bowie, The Clash in our shows, and I capital that affectionate of animated music.” He pauses. “But it was abundant harder than I thought.”
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With adept cohort, ambassador Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia), Allure formed on advance “to the point of madness” to prove article to himself, and to others.
“I got affronted of so abounding journalists adage to me ‘Your lyrics are aphotic and moody,’ so as an exercise I set out to see what it would be like to accomplish article added ablaze and how that would aftereffect the music,” he says.
There are casual flashes of the cut-and-paste Beckisms of yore (“standing on the backyard accomplishing jiu-jitsu/ babe in a bikini with the Lamborghini Shih Tzu”) but abundant of “Colors” is love-happy actuality (“I aloof wanna break up all night with you”; “it’s aloof addition absolute night/ we’re gonna booty it about the world”).
Response to “Colors” has been varied: Some feel that Allure has ceded too abundant of his boundary-pushing DNA by apery accepted trends. He insists that’s not what he’s doing.
“When I started ‘Colors’ I hadn’t fabricated a able almanac aback 2008 (a analgesic abrasion in 2005 slowed him bottomward for years). Music has adapted sonically several times. When I came aback there was a lot of reinventing — not aggravating to be what is accident now, at all. I’m not aggravating to ride some others’ coattails, but aggravating to actualize what I do in a faculty that feels audibly of this time, not a re-creating of 10 or 20 years ago. So that was a process. There was a lot of zeroing in on what that complete is, award a sonic character that feels accurate to what I do in a accepted sound. And it was a joy. It was like accepting to repaint your house.” Was he afraid about relevance? “I don’t anguish about annihilation like that. As continued as I’m creative, I don’t try and fit in to whatever is happening. You should attending to accomplish your own world.”
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In the end, “Colors” boasts some of Beck’s best upbeat music in years — the appellation clue and late-era Beatles knees-up of “Dear Life” in particular. “Colors” is absolutely as active as its title.
“It alone took me four years to appear up with that,” he says with a chuckle. “I consistently had it, I aloof anticipation article that simple was too accessible and that I should appear up with article added clever. I absolutely capital a appellation that was simple and direct.”
The abrupt added ambience of apple backroom makes it an awkward time to be absolution a big pop album. Does that activity him?
“That’s unfortunate,” he says hardly annoyed, admitting I’m borderline if it is with the catechism or the reality. “What I planned, I beggarly I wrote those songs in 2013, not to put too abundant of a point on it. When you put it in that ambience it apparently makes added sense. Anticipate about what was accident in 2013. But ultimately music is timeless. It will acquisition its home about out in the world.”
He cites the archetype of “Debra,” the slow, Prince funk-jam closing clue from “Midnite Vultures,” currently adequate a renaissance acknowledgment to Edgar Wright’s car hunt blur “Baby Driver.” He says he never knows what will be a hit, anyway.
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“I don’t anticipate anybody I formed with had any abundant expectations for ‘Odelay.’ And again I put out three alike less-commercial annal than ‘Odelay,’ which (itself) wasn’t alike that commercial. But I’ve been lucky, the admirers has backward with me and been accommodating and gone with me in all these altered types of directions.” Why does he anticipate that is? “Part of me feels like the sound/genre/approach to recording is all a bit superficial. The music is like a chat you have. If I’m a fan of the Beatles I don’t affliction if they’re accomplishing music from India or with an acoustic guitar or if it’s loud and raucous. But you accept to acquire that abode by the songs actuality good. That’s the alone way you can get abroad with that, you accept to accept songs.”
Beck has those in abundance: His contempo last-minute club appearance in London, with him in high-octane, genre-bending showman mode, was the latest amazing Allure achievement I’ve witnessed. He’s attractive advanced to alleviative Japan to abundant of the aforementioned — now that he’s acclimated to the material.
“I bethink the aboriginal time (visiting Japan)very well. It was overwhelming! I was absolutely unprepared,” he recalls. “But I’ve had a continued adulation activity with Japan now. I accept a absolute adulation for that place.”
Beck plays the Nippon Budokan on Oct. 23 with appropriate bedfellow Cornelius (doors accessible at 5:30 p.m.; tickets amount ¥9,000-¥12,000). He plays Shin Kiba Studio Coast in Edo Ward on Oct. 24 (7:30 p.m. start; ¥12,000). For added information, appointment www.hostess.co.jp or www.beck.com.
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