{"id":2442972,"date":"2019-04-15T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=822457"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:08:49","slug":"hear-becks-new-single-saw-lightning-co-written-by-pharrell-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-becks-new-single-saw-lightning-co-written-by-pharrell-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Beck\u2019s New Single \u2018Saw Lightning,\u2019 Co-Written By Pharrell Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/beck-saw-lightning.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beck\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beck\" data-tag=\"beck\">Beck<\/a> recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pharrell-williams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pharrell-williams\" data-tag=\"pharrell-williams\">Pharrell Williams<\/a> for the singer\u2019s new track \u201cSaw Lightning,\u201d the first single off his upcoming new album <em>Hyperspace<\/em>. Beck and Williams co-wrote and co-produced the track, which melds the jangly acoustic guitar of Beck\u2019s folksier work with the dancefloor-ready programmed beats prominent in his 2017 LP <em>Colors<\/em>; Williams also contributes, according to the song credits, \u201cdrums, keyboards and mumbles\u201d to the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaw Lightning\u201d also features as part of an upcoming Beats by Dre ad campaign helmed by <em>Atlanta<\/em> and \u201cThis Is America\u201d director Hiro Murai.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwSBohDg8WN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.9274611398964\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Capitol Records notes that <em>Hyperspace<\/em>, Beck\u2019s first album since the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy-winning <em>Colors<\/em>, will arrive \u201cat an as yet undetermined point in the space time continuum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interim since <em>Colors<\/em>, Beck has covered \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beck-tarantula-roma-soundtrack-783197\/\">Tarantula<\/a>\u201d for the <em>Roma<\/em> soundtrack, served as co-producer on Jenny Lewis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-jenny-lewis-on-on-the-line-811783\/\"><em>On the Line<\/em><\/a> and teamed with Cage the Elephant for that band\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-the-elephant-beck-night-running-814102\/\">Night Running<\/a>\u201c; Beck and Cage the Elephant will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beck-cage-the-elephant-spoon-tour-793105\/\">co-headlining tour<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beck-new-single-saw-lightning-pharrell-williams-822457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beck recruited Pharrell Williams for the singer\u2019s new track \u201cSaw Lightning,\u201d the first single off his upcoming new album Hyperspace. Beck and Williams co-wrote and co-produced the track, which melds the jangly acoustic guitar of Beck\u2019s folksier work with the dancefloor-ready programmed beats prominent in his 2017 LP Colors; Williams also contributes, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 08:22:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}