Check your shoes, cause you just stepped in hit. Beck is back, and he’s gone…hip-hop. In typical fashion, the LA-born musician’s latest track, Wow, is a Frankenstein genre-blending cut. His first release since the 2015 single, Dreams that energetic pop production remains intact, with an added dose of synth, trap snares and a whimsical flute melody that’ll worm its way inside your head and set up home.

Throwing us curveballs since his 1993 debut record Golden Feelings, Beck consistently looks one step further and his new self-produced single is an apt realisation of this ethos. Take the lyrics, for instance,“getting loose with the luminous moves.” “Girl in a bikini with a Lamborghini Shih Tzu” – Beck, you genius.

The track will be followed by a full-length album release on 21st October, his first since the country-rock and folk stylings of 2014’s Grammy-winning Morning Phase – now there’s diversity. And if Wow is anything to go by, you can smash your acoustic ukeleles on the way to the dance floor, they won’t be needed here.