Oh So Silently We Go

Beck “I Won’t Be Long”

This new Beck single basically picks up where he left off with Modern Guilt – stiff grooves and a lot of atmosphere, but since Danger Mouse isn’t involved, it doesn’t feel so compressed and stifling. Like a few other songs he’s recorded over the past few years, “I Won’t Be Long” has this dramatic yet low key handsome-voiced sexy vibe going on, and I really appreciate this. There’s not a lot of male artists working in this vein, and that sound really flatters him. It’s funny – I don’t think anyone in the mid-90s would have expected that Beck would grow to become such a nuanced vocalist, but here we are.

Buy it from Beck.