This special episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast, where if you have been listening to us much for the past 25 plus years, we've been doing the show, you know that we are pretty big fans of Beck.

I've actually been on Beck Watch 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 kind of out of the blue released this new EP of some rarities and cover songs,

we featured it on the show back then.

Everybody's got to learn sometime.

When you released that, I started thinking,

maybe he's got something in the works here.

Maybe we're going to start hearing more from him this year.

And sure enough, Beck is back. He's just released a brand new song.

It's called Ride Lonesome. If you're a Beck fan, you know, he's someone who's played around with all

kinds of sounds and genres and styles and everything in a career that stretches back more than 30

years. This new cut, we're going to play it here. It's very much like something,

if you know his album C-Change or the album Morning Phase. It's very much like those, very

introspective, kind of quieter, it's very gauzy and reflective. He's doing a lot of soul-searching.

We're actually going to talk with Beck all about this new song, how he came to write it,

and also a little bit about what he's been up to

since his last album.

But first, let's hear the song Ride Lonesome.

We'll play the whole cut here,

and then we'll hear from Beck.

Yesterday, Yesterday

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