Interview: Beck returns, rides lonesome on new song

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Robin Hilton· Host0:32

This special episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music podcast, where if you have been listening to us, uh, much for the past 25-plus years we've been doing the show, you know that we are pretty big fans of Beck. Uh, I've actually been on Beckwatch for a minute now, because it's been a long time since he put a new album out. It's been about seven years, which is the longest that he's ever gone between albums, and that's notable because he's someone who's been so prolific in the past, putting out so much stuff. So in January, when he, kinda out of the blue, released this new EP of, um, some rarities and cover songs, we featured it on the show back then, uh, Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime. Uh, when he released that, I started thinking, "Maybe he's got something in the works here. Maybe we're gonna start hearing more from him this year." And sure enough, Beck is back. He's just released a brand-new song. It's