Beck And Stephen Malkmus To Collaborate On New Music

Classic indie rock fans, hold thy collective breath—Stephen Malkmus (with his solo backing band, The Jicks) entered a recording studio with Beck earlier this year to record new music, according to Pitchfork. Let me run that by you again: Stephen Malkmus, Beck, recording together. Two artists who produced some of the best genre-bending rock of the 1990’s, working together. This is almost as mind-shattering for me as Journey and Steve Perry reuniting (don’t you say a word about this—you know it would be amazing).

According to Pitchfork, it goes like this:

Originally mentioned in a Mojo article and confirmed by Matador, Malkmus and his band the Jicks recorded with Beck earlier this year. (Via Fluxblog.) But, thanks to Malkmus’s 2010 commitments with some other band, the fruits of the collaboration probably won’t be heard until next year, according to the label. So try to pace your excitement on this one.

While I’m excited at the prospect of a Malkmus/ Beck sonic union, let’s hope it’s not the post-Sea Change hey-I’m-gonna-remake-Odelay-over-and-over-again Beck (seriously, would it at least kill him to give us a Midnite Vultures sequel if he’s going to keep repeating himself?), and that Malkmus brings the same energy he has to the reunited Pavement’s recent series of stellar shows.

What do you think of a Beck/ Malkmus collaboration?