I just realized that I've been listening to Beck on and off for like 25 years now, and I've never heard him speak.

It’s insane how relevant beck has been for like 25ish years just by being himself

Super underrated musician. Such an authentic soul

Beck is one insightful, intelligent, well spoken man.

It's good to have interviewers who let musicians speak. A lot love to cut ppl off and talk over them and through their words. Beck is very articulate and so linked in with everyone in the industry and crazy. Musical genius. Literally.

Beck is back. Hell yes!!

He reminds me of Bowie, not in the way he looks or even sounds. Just his approach to the art.

Beck=genius

He is always so positive and sweet

Beck looks like a Amish guy from the Midwest . . . who just won the lottery and went shopping for new clothes. He is a fantstic musician who happens to be relevant within the pop music genre.

I love Beck and I love this album!!! The song Dark Places in particular gets stuck in my head all day long. I wish I could meet Beck and shake his hand or give him a hug because since I've discovered him 5 years ago I've been able to use his music to keep me sane through the everyday bullshit life can be. He's got something to fit whatever mood I'm in from day to day and it never gets old to me. THAT is art. He's so underrated and underappreciated for his awesomeness, but that's what makes him awesome and as though he's my secret weapon, because he's not overblown or wrecked by over popularity. He's just BECK.

Beck and Ben Folds our Mozart. We are fortunate to have song riders that are still writing organic music.

7:20 beck explaining what music does to us.. super spot on!

Midnight Vultures..so way ahead of the curb. Amazing album.

"The luxury is actually not external it's internal" @13:40 is one of my principles as a Latin teacher! For instance, I say, when you watch a show on a screen, it could be a phone screen or a movie theater screen, but your ENTIRE attention is going to be screen sized--so what size can we expand our attention to with experience and reading and reflection.

He can talk my ear off anytime. I'd love to hear him and Thom Yorke make some compositions.

I think Beck is so darn talented, smart...and cute, man.

Saw him at Shaky Knees in Atlanta this past May. Front row too. One of the best musicians working today.

Love this guy! Been a fan since the late 90s.

Beck your music has helped me through some dark times. Thank you xx

Absolute legend

"And you may ask yourself how did I get here... and you may ask yourself where is that Large automobile? 🎶 🥁

He gets pretty technical but in an accessible way. I love Beck. His music has brought joy.

I Love his voice

Hyperspace is an epic album on all levels. It's just stunning if you keep an open minded musically. Songs like stratosphere, dark places and everlasting nothing are just superb.

Wow, thanks for the great interview/conversation, Mr. Hansen and NME.

Best living music artist by far. Come to Southern Europe, please!

I'll work with ya Beck....have always enjoyed your work through the years...and it has helped me through difficult times

It must be so tiring for musicians, Beck included, to hear from fans every time they release a new album that it's not like x album and that they should make another album just like x album, or that they want x album era musician back. As a longtime Beck fan, and having seen him live, it's super annoying to hear people pining for Mellow Gold era Beck. It's as if musicians aren't allowed to grow as people as well. I think Hyperspace is a solid album, and Chemical is an especially stellar track. And for everyone getting upset over Pharrell's influence on the album, get over it. Beck didn't "sell out" because he used a trap beat on one song on the album. In my eyes, what makes Beck, Beck is that he truly is a chameleon of sound. Putting his entire discography on shuffle is more diverse and more wild of a ride than most of the Alt/Rock playlists curated by Spotify and Apple nowadays anyways.

Thanks for the great guest! And thank. you Beck for a new beautiful album! New dimensions to the perception of space :)

Chemical is a DOPE track.

Woe this guy is pretty articulate

Great interview! I really like the themes behind this album. Everyone who worked on album did an amazing job!

Loving hyperspace! Love colors too, been listening to beck for a long time!

What a guy! I really like his earlier stuff like soul manure and one foot in the grave.

I feel like I have to listen to it again!

He gives me massive Michael Vera vibes. it's like if Michael Cera was also David Bowie and non-depressed Kurt cobain

Man the interviewer really just cut him off. You could tell Beck was kinda off put too. “I talked your ear off.” Should have let him keep going.

Such a great artist

Beck just has a different genre on every album. That has really allowed him to stay fresh for these 25+ years. He's not an artist where he has stayed the exact same style, drifted away from it for 2 or 3 albums where fans have complained that it doesn't sound like him. I love super hard rocking stuff (Mellow Gold, Odelay, Guero), his upbeat funk/pop/synth-pop (Midnite Vultures, Colors, Hyperspace), his mellower indie rock (Mutations, Modern Guilt), and his slower melancholy folk/rock (Sea Change (My favorite Beck album), and Morning Phase) and even his weirder pre-Mellow Gold stuff. Although One Foot in the Grave is a masterclass from him!

To me, as an artist, Beck is to me what David Bowie is to Beck.

Great interview. Beck was lucky to have a good interviewer in which he could really be himself. Great journalism.

14:24 so cool! "chemical" is my favorite of the album, and i had already appreciated all the things he mentioned about it. so validating to hear from the horse's mouth my own assessments.

Midnight Vultures is my favorite Beck album.

Creative spirit and beautifully inventive. Fascinating that he did scoring "play my work" as a way to create *your sound.* very interesting Family and remarkable connection to Johnny Cash which i think saved him.

I love this man

Beck: "However you build your life, there will be an equalization. Ha ha ha!!" NME: "Ha ha ha...........?"

Fave album 2k19 🙌

Everlasting Nothing is an existentialist gospel song.....totally agree!!

Beck, please make a record with Tom Waits

I loooooove this man

new album is really good

Love beck!

Peace and Love Beck.

Beck is a genious also an enigma may be every genious is an enigma

Chemical is the best track on the album hands down. It flows so well

its neat to hear him talk about it. neat-o

Playlist Beck and Beck because he's original in his own ways art music video's that's the way I look at his music as great work's of art.

6:39 so cool. love that song

7:09 so cool. music soothes the beast. this is due to the air vibrations that not only change the frequency of blood flow in the ears and thus brain, but also are felt throughout the body to change bloodflow in the heart.

Coming here straight from the Thurston-interview is quite the shocking experience.

beck keepin it real.

I keep watching things of beck talking about this record but cannot bring myself to listen to it again. It’s so inert

Everybody is in the movie of their life.

Cool insights

Mr Beck! where you referring to defender ? That game was so hard ! All the pros use to play it hardcore but me I was just too young to be able to get past a couple of minutes on the darn thing !

Good explanation of philosphy

I'll probably be buying this album on vinyl. The house DJ Jon Pleased Wimmin (aka Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin) recommended it to me. (Nes Manga)

What a great young journalist, just letting the interviewee take the reigns vocally and casually interjecting with stimulating questions is a valuable skill not many have.

Beck and the flaming lips really collaborated well

Just came here from the show throwing interview. Very different 😂

haven't heard from him for a long time 💙

'Colors' is Beck's Shiny Happy People.

Anybody who really dug this album may want to check out a UK / Brexit artist called Tim Please. He also sells sounds he designed on various synths. I've been trying to get him to write me an album for years but he's very hard to get a hold of now. I didn't have money or a lot of it when I found out he writes music. By the time I did. He vanished. Seriously go check out his stuff lol.

good looking pupils beck!

NME was planning to do an interview, but I think he got pulled into a meditation without realizing it.

Huge Beck fan here. Everything was so good for so long! Morning Phase was a masterpiece. I was so excited for what was next, but it's all been absolute shit after Morning Phase. He sold out.

It's pretty good.

New album's dope.

Xenu would be proud of his Thetans

The David Bowie of generation X.

Beck is the best

beck: you know like uh (says a bunch of stuff i don't understand) me: i love u beck

@2:02 PREACH!!!

So funny to compare this to his nardwuar interview, crazy how much he’s changed

And millions of auto mechanics wanted to be musicians!

Beck is a deep! I need to hang out with that dude :)

cool

im willing to hire thom yorke to just to see if he can see himself doing it without losing focus on the other things hes looking at with his good eyes.

Beck you should do an album with jack white that would be awesome

Is Hyperspace the 5th dimension?

THIS dude is REALLY talented. I just heard him do Neil Young's "Old Man" and I was FLOORED.

That's a nice hat

Chemical is a weapon of a song 🎉

I miss when Beck threw a boot when people asked him questions. He has become such an elitist.

The album is dope lol

That game has to be defender.

New album looks better than it sounds. I hope it grows on me but so far it’s my least favorite of all of his releases.

Is he talking about the great reset at the start?

Great interview. Gross rug.