LISTEN: Beck Shares Pharrell-Produced Song “Saw Lightning”

It’s the first track from Beck’s forthcoming full-length, “Hyperspace.”
LISTEN: Beck Shares Pharrell-Produced Song “Saw Lightning”

It’s the first track from Beck’s forthcoming full-length, “Hyperspace.”

Words: Scott T. Sterling

photo by Luis Moreno

April 15, 2019

Beck / photo by Luis Moreno

Beck is back, and this time he’s bringing Pharrell Williams along for the ride.

“Saw Lightning” is the first track from Hyperspace, which will be the alt-rock icon’s fourteenth studio album when it drops “at an as yet undetermined point in the space time continuum,” according to the press release.

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On the track, the pair take a page out of the presently popular “Yeehaw Agenda” to give a decided country twang to the tune, which pairs a frenetic dance rhythm with slide guitars and Pharrell’s distinctive background flourishes. Throbbing bass rumbles and Beck’s breathless vocals top the energetic production. Listen to it below.