For Thurston Moore's forthcoming third solo album, Demolished Thoughts, the Sonic Youth frontman has employed Beck as producer, continuing a working relationship that started in 2010 when Moore joined a stellar cast for Beck's Record Club project (the idea being to cover an album in a day). Benediction, the first song to emerge from the album, shows that, thankfully, the pair have avoided the sex-funk stylings of Beck's Midnite Vultures. Instead, it's a lovely acoustic lament that recalls Moore's 2007 album, Trees Outside the Academy, and the more melancholic side of Beck (think 2002's Sea Change). The video – tweeted by Moore yesterday – features colour-filtered war imagery, as simple and affecting as the song itself.
• Demolished Thoughts is out 23 May on Matador
