Beck on his vibrant new album ‘Colors’ and potentially working with Kanye West (Report)

You can see the doorman’s logic. Some goofy longhair, a baby-faced man-child and what must be their granddad turn up at the door of an exclusive post-Grammys party asking for some guy called Mark Ronson. Of course you’re gonna tell them to sling their hook before anyone famous comes along – you don’t want any crazed weirdo fans hassling major talents like Kylie Jenner. “How VIP do we gotta get?” Sir Paul McCartney asks Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins as the door is slammed in his face. He pokes his finger at Beck. “We need another hit! Work on it!”

Beck – the slacker prince of alternative hip-pop, the breakdancing Prince of indie funktronica, introspective psych-folk journeyman and so much more besides – can laugh about it now but at the time he, Macca and Taylor being turned away from Tyga’s 2016 Grammys after-party was viral. “We were trying to find Mark Ronson’s party and somebody had given us the wrong address,” he says, “so we were literally just walking the streets looking for anything that looked like a party. Paul went, ‘Oh, that looks like a party,’ and just went up, no ceremony. It turned out we were in completely the wrong part of town.”

Behind the wry chuckles, you sense there’s a little bit of Beck that lived out his greatest fear in that moment: the fear that, after almost 25 years of chameleonic creativity, it was all over. It’s all there in the grooves. His new album ‘Colors’ is, by and large, a joyous howl of emancipation, the modernist dancefloor roar of a new lease of life unleashed. Singles like ‘Up All Night’ and ‘Dreams’ pulse with a rejuvenated, otherworldly party euphoria, a characteristic…