The first single from Beck’s new collaboration with Danger Mouse, Modern Guilt, “Chemtrails” dropped digitally 11 days ago, June 22.
On the 23, Scott Trust rag The Guardian dropped Alex Rayner’s article “Beck is back, but what’s the conspiracy about chemtrails?”
He began his pop career claiming to be a loser, yet Beck Hansen might prove the point later this month, with his new single, Chemtrails. This crisp, doomy piece of psychedelia was described by Craig McLean in the latest Observer Music Monthly as a “puff of spectral Floydisms”. Unfortunately, this lovely song takes its name from a controversial hypothesis, which asserts that jet aircraft are dispersing chemicals in their vapour trails, for, well, pretty much any reason you can think of: biological weapons testing, military-industrial population control, clandestine global dimming, intercontinental communications systems, witchcraft. Nice idea. Pity it’s the daftest conspiracy theory this side of Hangar 18.
Beck’s site crashes my Firefox, so here’s someone’s home-made music video instead:
There are a few other chemtrail montage videos for the song up on YouTube, or just listen while looking at the dang sky. Don’t expect Beck to play a Morgellons benefit concert any time soon, but at least he’s getting the word itself out there.
(10-11-08 Update)
“Chemtrails” continues to rock my Thetan, and a smattering of folks have used Beck’s sombre single to push the issue on YouTube and so forth. Here’s a cool CGI of sprayplanes from Gilgamesh’s hometown of Uruk.
Tags: air, Beck, Modern Guilt, Uruk
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