News of a Beck album is always cause for celebration, especially when it’s seven years since the last one – 2019’s Hyperspace – but even more so when it’s recorded with the same wrecking crew as the melancholy classics Sea Change and Morning Phase (having originally got together for 1998’s Mutations). That’s Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr and Jason Falkner; Nigel Godrich also joined on mixing. Beck said: “This time it felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened – a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together.” A first taste of their wares is already available in Ride Lonesome, a wise, almost cosmic ode to keepin’ on keepin’ on, and the serene, fingerpicked In the Night.
You could ask Beck about his new record or anything else when he sits for the Guardian’s reader interview soon. Perhaps working with Beau Travail star Denis Lavant on the video for In the Night, his artistic childhood, love of blues, the strangeness of peak-MTV 90s success, working with the Dust Brothers on Odelay – or any of his esteemed collaborators, among them Paul McCartney, Phoenix, Edgar Wright, Philip Glass, the surviving members of Nirvana and many others. Post your questions in the comments by 10am BST on 25 August 2026 and the best answers will appear in a future edition of the reader interview.
Ride Lonesome is released via Iliad/Capitol on 18 September
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