Beck Recruits Wilco and Feist for Record Club

Beck's Record Club project continues to provide one of the most intriguing musical outlets on the Internet. The premise behind Record Club is simple--produce a cover of one classic album, recorded over the space of a single day by Beck and his famous friends. Each project is never going to equal the recorded output of each individual performer, but that's not the point. This is a casual, let's-see-what-we-can-do-here jam that isn't designed to be earth shattering, but may turn up odd moments of inspiration.

Incredibly, two albums are already done and dusted by Beck and his crew, with The Velvet Underground and Nico and Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen already streaming on his site. Clearly, this isn't going to be an idea that stalls at the first hurdle, as these ventures so often do. In fact, Beck has already begun work on the next album in the series, which will be a full re-imagining of Skip Spence's 1969 album, Oar.

MGMT and Devendra Banhart were among the guests who previously helped the Record Club into life, but Beck has outdone himself by recruiting Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell for a tilt at Spence's "Little Hands." The results are in the streaming video below, which captures the fun and loose nature of the sessions. Jeff Tweedy's son, Spencer, also sits in on this track (that's him behind the drum kit alongside Bil Withers' drummer James Gadson) and the promise of more Spence songs, which will be spread over the upcoming weeks, are now a mouthwatering proposition.