At Home With Beck: The Playlist

“I got shut down with everybody else,” Beck tells Apple Music about putting a temporary halt to his creative output once the pandemic hit. “The studio team I have, they're all sheltering. This is the first time in 10 years I've been home in the summertime, because I'm usually doing festivals. This is the longest I've been home I think since probably before I started music.” In his At Home With conversation with Zane Lowe, the veteran singer-songwriter talks about collaborating with Jack White, getting an unexpected call from Davie Bowie while he was in the shower, and how his track “Uneventful Days” relates to this time of isolation. But all things considered, he remains hopeful: “There's something of the world that goes into the music of this time. We're all digesting what this is, but I'd love to make something right now to feel the energy of whatever this moment is.” As he releases an enhanced visual album of his 2019 release Hyperspace which he made in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Beck curated an exclusive playlist of space-themed songs featuring the likes of Spiritualized, A Flock of Seagulls, Harry Nilsson and Kraftwerk, whose track “Computer World” is included here. “They completely invented a language that we take for granted now,” he says of the German electronic music pioneers. “There was nothing remotely related to it beforehand, so it's probably like for other generations hearing rock ’n’ roll for the first time.”