Beck Announces First Album in 7 Years

Listen to “In the Night” from Ride Lonesome, which reunites Beck with Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Nigel Godrich

July 15, 2026

Beck has launched his new album, Ride Lonesome, with a new song and video starring Denis Lavant. Ahead of “In the Night,” Beck introduced the album back in April with the title track and news of a tour. Ride Lonesome is due September 18 via Capitol.

The Mikai Karl-directed video starts with Lavant ruefully smoking a cigarette—I would happily have watched this for five minutes—before wandering around an apparently French, tumbledown apartment, gazing across a rustic skyline, and slowly retreating into himself. Watch it below.

For the Hyperspace follow-up, Beck reunited with the band that made Mutations, Sea Change, and Morning Phase: Smokey Hormel, Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and Jason Falkner. They worked at his favorite studio, Room B at Hollywood’s United Studios, he said in a press release. And, he added, sometime collaborator Nigel Godrich mixed the album. “It had been a decade since we went in the studio and recorded Morning Phase. This time It felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened—a sound that’s come together over the decades of working together. While we were revisiting a musical and physical place, it also felt like we were finding new sounds and emotional textures along the way.”

Read Mike Powell’s Sunday Review of Beck’s Mellow Gold.

Beck: Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome:

01 Ride Lonesome

02 Run Away

03 In the Night

04 Failed Words

05 Bleed

06 Disappearing Act

07 For Your Love

08 Slow Canyon

09 It Ends Right Here

10 Falling Through My Hands

11 If You Don't Know What Love Is

12 Beyond the Light

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