For over 20 years, the singer-songwriter Beck has been releasing music inspired by styles and genres from hip-hop to folk, and fusing them to create a trademark sound that has brought him success while maintaining his changing and genre-blurring sound. He garnered fame in the mid-90’s with the surprise breakthrough single “Loser,” a slacker anthem for the ages, and followed up with his critically acclaimed album Odelay, a hip-hop influenced singer-songwriter jamfest, and more successful singles like “Where It’s At.”
Now, over two decades later, he is touring after the release of his latest album, Colors, the follow-up to his 2014 Morning Phase, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year, controversially winning over Beyoncé’s self-titled surprise album. A stylistic departure from the soothingly haunting orchestral folk of Morning Phase, Colors is, in a sense, the partying counterpart to its predecessor’s thoughtful melancholy.
Beck will be playing at The Anthem on April 26th. Keeping in mind this recent swing toward the more fun side of music, the shows may prove to be a fun affair, full of some zany lyrics (“Loser”, his most famous song, opens with the legendary line “In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey”) and, with a focus on his more recent material, a unique variety between calming folk, noisy hip-hop, and dance-inspiring grooves, served by the unmatchable Beck.
The doors will open at 6:30 PM, and the show will begin at 8 PM. Further information can be found here.
