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Beck’s Morning Phase feels like standing and stretching in the Hollywood Hills at dawn. A through-line for all these records we’ve been talking about is just the feeling of them. Listening to each of these albums made me feel a certain way. That is what I was trying to capture more than anything else in Red Sky Warning. The way I write music is different than all of these artists, but they all influence my writing. And I don’t think my record feels like any of these records, but that deep relationship between the songs and the feeling is what I wanted.
I don’t know what Beck has publicly said about this record – I don’t really read much of what anyone says about their records. For me it’s almost like magicians talking about their tricks. I don’t really want to know more than what I take away from the music, because I want to stay in my creative zone, not theirs. It’s almost like deliberately entering a fog with nothing but a flashlight. You’re trying to find your way through it, but you have no idea where you are in it, what you’re going to find, or where you’re going to come out. When you aren’t in a hurry to escape, you find what you’re looking for.
“Morning” starts the record by clearly giving off the same vibe as Sea Change, but somehow it sounds simultaneously much closer and more distant, as if he’s inviting us to look at something with him, rather than just tell us about it. Like all of the other tracks, “Blue Moon” makes a huge sound out of an oddly minimalist instrumentation, and I honestly don’t miss the normal sensory overload I find myself expecting from him. “Wave” really takes that idea to the extreme, with its haunting single vocal performance backed only by strings.
Morning Phase gives off this effortless vibe – a feeling that is particularly challenging for me to find for myself. This snapshot from Beck really inspired me to let the songs lead the way. And that’s more than a feeling. It’s an epiphany.
Taken from an interview with David Cloyd in July 2025 about what albums inspired his latest album, “Red Sky Warning”, out now on ECR Music Group. https://ecrmusicgroup.com/artists/david-cloyd/
