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Colors (9 versions)
Type: Album
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| Colors is Beck's 2017 album. He wrote the most of it in 2013/2014. It was initially announced to be released in the fall of 2016, but that date came and went before it ended up coming out in October 2017. Beck's explanation for the delay was that he was spending more time on getting the details of the recording right. He explained, "These are complex songs all trying to do two or three things at once. It's not retro and not modern. To get everything to sit together so it doesn't sound like a huge mess was quite an undertaking."
Greg Kurstin produced most of the record (all except "Wow" and "Fix Me"); and in fact mostly, the album is just Beck and Kurstin doing everything together. As said, Beck wrote the most of the album in 2013/2014. ("Fix Me" is apparently from 2007 or so.) Due to Kurstin's schedule, they did not work on it consistently together over that time, and surely that was part of why it took so long. In the meantime, Beck did go and try to work with other HUGE pop producers: Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Paul Epworth. He even did some sessions with the musicians who played on Thriller. None of their work is explicitly on Colors, and I'm very curious how working with all the most successful pop musicmakers (of all-time!) influenced what Colors became. In the end, the work with Kurstin apparently clicked the best, and that's what formed Colors. | ||
CDs
cd version a
Title: Colors Release type: Retail Release date: October 13, 2017 Format: CD (x1) Number pressed: Unknown Label: Capitol Records, Fonograf Catalog number: B002716202 Country: United States Notes: Standard American CD version of Colors. Gatefold cover. 1. Colors  Mix: Serban Ghenea Produced by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Vocals: Beck Hansen Vocals (Background): Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 2. Seventh Heaven Mix: Serban Ghenea Produced by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Vocals: Beck Hansen Vocals (Background): Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 3. I'm So Free Drums: Ilan Rubin Mix: Serban Ghenea Produced by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Vocals: Beck Hansen Vocals (Background): Leslie Feist, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 4. Dear Life Bass: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Bass (Upright): Geoff Osika, Nico Abondolo Cello: Eric Byers, Steve Richards, Suzie Katayama, Timothy Landauer Conductor: David Campbell Drums: Greg Kurstin Engineer: Alex Pasco, Beck Hansen, Cassidy Turbin, Cole Marsden Grief-Neill, Darrell Thorp, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Greg Kurstin, Jesse Shatkin, John Hanes, Julian Burg Glockenspiel: Beck Hansen Guitar (Electric): Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin keyboards: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Marimba: Greg Kurstin Mellotron: Greg Kurstin Mix: Greg Kurstin Organ: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Percussion: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Piano: Greg Kurstin Produced by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin String Arrangement: Beck Hansen, David Campbell Synthesizer: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Viola: Andrew Duckles, Darrinn McCann, Matt Funes Violin: Charlie Bisharat, Josefina Vergara, Mario De Leon, Michele Richards, Natalie Leggett, Sara Parkins, Songa Lee, Teresa Stanislav Vocals: Beck Hansen Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 5. No Distraction Produced by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 6. Dreams (Colors mix) Written by: Andrew Wyatt, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 7. Wow Produced by: Beck Hansen Vocals: Beck Hansen Written by: Beck Hansen, Cole Marsden Grief-Neill 8. Up All Night Written by: Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin 9. Square One 10. Fix Me |  | ||
