Beck and Jack White have “almost an album’s worth” of collaborative material

Hanson is getting the Third Man treatment. Beck came to Nashville in , to work on new material for his next album, and recorded a song at Third Man on his final day in town. An even scarcer scattering of 50 Tri Colors will be randomly inserted in mail orders for the single placed with Third Man. Starting Wed.

Beck: Gold Dust Woman Last month we heard him join forces with Jack White, and now comes a second Third Man Records-related collaboration for Beck complete with Elson pulling off one of the more Stevie Nicksian vocal tracks so far​.

By the time that Beck Hansen finished his lush, melancholy new record, “Morning Phase,” he had become so consumed by the process that he says he’d caused brain damage. Recorded in Nashville, Paris, London and Los Angeles over seven intense months, “Morning Phase” is the artist’s 12th album and first studio album since he hit 40, and it sounds it. Pensive, smooth, filled with rich Southern California harmonies by way of the Beach Boys, Tim Buckley and various ladies and men of the canyon and nary an abrasive note, it’s a record that a successful adult man with a wife and two kids, like Beck, would make.

He suggested dinner at the same Italian restaurant where 20 years prior the then-prodigy with a pre-viral viral hit “Loser” first met with executives from a high-flying Geffen Records. Beck is as lithe as he was then, with a tight haircut longer on top than the sides and a kind, barely guarded demeanor eager to place his ambitious new record in a context. Since that meal the menu hasn’t changed much, he says in one of the many neighborhoods he’s occupied over the years, he went platinum with his major label debut, “Mellow Gold,” which turns 20 this spring.

He followed that with, among others, the critical breakthrough “Odelay,” the odd experiment in funk with “Midnite Vultures,” broke up with a longtime girlfriend, made “Sea Change,” quietly acknowledged an affiliation with Scientology stretching back to his youth, expanded into bleepy electronics with “Guero” and “The Information,” married actress Marissa Ribisi and had kids and tried to reconcile the lot of it on “Modern Guilt.

Well, maybe they’ll like this. After working at reconciling his many aesthetic interests — and becoming a free agent upon concluding a long business relationship with Geffen and owner Universal — Beck said that “Morning Phase” was a stab at purging his songs of everything but “the most essential, elemental sounds.