Beck: ‘I wanted to make something that felt good’

He wrote his sunniest album yet – and then parked it when Trump won the presidency. Is the world ready for some fun?Beck Hansen has been sitting on his new album – his gleeful, giddy, what-a-wonderful-world-we-live-in album Colors – for at least a year now. The Californian, who records as Beck, began writing tracks for it a while back, “when the biggest song in the world was Happy by Pharrell Williams”, he recalls. As the veteran composer of a dozen albums since the