About Uneventful Days

“Uneventful Days” is the second single from Beck’s 2019 album Hyperspace. It details the boring, day-to-day, and uneventful life of a man wandering through darkness. Dev Hynes pays tribute to Beck’s ever-shifting imagery with his reverent video for the latter’s new song “Uneventful Days.” The Blood Orange songwriter fills the hazy clip — which also includes intro “Hyperlife” — with subtle winks to Beck’s visuals and overall aesthetic: In one scene, a man stares at documents on his cluttered work desk as a rumpled Beck poster falls off the wall, in another, a man decked out in a vintage Beck T-shirt cries in his car. The visual co-stars Evan Rachel Wood, Tessa Thompson and Alia Shawkat, who add subtle wardrobe winks to Beck’s past. (The most overt is Thompson, whose attire and accessories — leather jacket, cowboy hat and boombox — nod to the 1996 video for “Devil’s Haircut.”) The synth-heavy “Uneventful Days” and “Hyperlife” come from Beck’s upcoming 14th LP, Hyperspace, out November 22nd. Beck produced the album, which also includes previously issued track “Saw Lightning” with Pharrell Williams.