If 2014’s Morning Phase was surprising (and winning in every way) for its soft, supple melancholy—a distant cousin to Beck’s own Sea Change of a decade previous—his follow-up in Colors is doubly daring. Not in a risqué way that’s reminiscent of the thrill of hearing prime-Beck back-to-back oddities Odelay, Mutations and Midnite Vultures as one … Continue reading Essential New Music: Beck’s “Colors”