In a new interview with NPR, Beck talks about the process of making his twelfth studio album, which comes after several ambitions musical performances on projects including remaking classic albums (including one by Yanni) releasing an album entirely on sheet music and recreating David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" with a giant orchestra for an advertisement for Lincoln automobiles.

One thing you won't find on Morning Phase are any fast songs. "I think at one point we realized there was nothing faster than 60 BPMs," said Beck. He also brought up a common saw among songwriters, that everyone needs to write bad songs to eventually write good songs. "I kind of wish there was more room for people to make bad records - just make a couple bad ones, you know, to get to the good stuff. I think it's part of the process."

And while you may want to call this song and his new album "folk" music, Beck's own definition of the word may not lump his music in with the term "folk."