Danger Mouse is on fire lately, and I couldn’t be happier that he produced the new Beck album. I go back and forth on Beck - he’s one of those bands/artists that make consistently good records when they could be making great records. Kind of like Coldplay, but they’re more on the crap-when-they-could-be-great side of the scale.

So the addition of Danger Mouse can only be a good thing. He’s produced two of my favorite records of this year, the new Gnarls Barkley and Black Keys’ Attack and Release. I don’t know if he’s gone all analog or what, but he really captures something “old” on his latest work, something intangible that you feel when you listen to the best stuff of the 60s and 70s.

His collaboration with Beck is called Modern Guilt, and it’s out on July 6th. You can hear a few tracks on Beck’s iLike page, and they sound as good and old and psychedelic as I hoped they would. Reminds me of the new Caribou, a little.

Link: Beck on iLike