Beck goes hip-hop

06/27/2006 2:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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Beck has revealed his new album focuses principally on his love of hip-hop. The iconic pop star has confirmed the LP will be released this autumn, with production from Nigel Godrich, who has previously worked with both Beck and Radiohead.

News of the album comes just over a year since the release of Guero and six months since the remix collection Guerolito.

Beck told MTV this week: "Before we started, Nigel said he wanted to do a hip-hop record. And in a way it is, and in a way it isn't. It has hip-hop songs, and my previous work with him was Mutations and Sea Change, these sort of introspective records, and so this new one is sort of bringing those two worlds together."

Beck will also reissue his landmark LP Odelay later this year, to mark the 10th anniversary of its release, featuring rarities, remixes, and B-sides.