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Beck has put out a trailer for his upcoming album Modern Guilt. It’s streaming on Amazon, but it didn’t take long for it to pop up on Youtube.? The video comes off like a French new wave film from the 60’s or like a clothing Ad from Andy Warhol.?? But there’s also the music, featuring snippets of new tunes like “Gamma Ray,” “Youthless,” “Modern Guilt,” and “Walls.”

Modern Guilt is set to drop on July 8.

The ever enigmatic Mr. Beck Hanson is up to his old tricks by enlisting Danger Mouse to helm the ship for his next record. Hopefully, Beck will get his inner-polyester suit on this time around.

Though he’s continued to drop solid records, with a few excellent songs on them, there’s been something lacking on his last few releases. Granted, the somber Sea Changes was ace, but it wasn’t much fun now was it.

Danger Mouse is one-half of Gnarls Barkley, which is poised to dominated the summer all over again. He’s also staying busy by producing albums for The Black Keys, The Rapture, Gorillaz and Ike Turner.

We want more of this. It’s time for the funky white boy to come back.

Interesting bit of news. Beck has been linked to the double suicide of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Though the NY Post makes it seem like Beck was responsible for both artists for committing suicide, which isn’t really the case at all.

Beck had Blake design the album artwork for his brilliant album, Sea Changes and then supposedly he was going to act in a movie made by Duncan, but backed out last minute because of Scientology.

But Duncan said the Los Angeles-based Beck backed out, fearing that his Scientologist handlers wouldn’t like the movie, Vanity Fair reported.

“[Beck] really, really tried to get away . . . [by] using going to NY to be in ‘Alice Underground,’ ” Duncan e-mailed a friend in late 2006.

“He told me he wanted to leave the cult desperately, and this what they do when someone knows that.”

The thing is people back out of projects all the time, so regardless if Beck did, should that really drive two people to take their lives?

Beck said he was only casual friends with Duncan and Blake, and certainly had no intentions of leaving the Church of Scientology.

“That’s ridiculous. Totally false,” Beck told the mag about his alleged agreement to work on “Alice.”

“Had we been closer and discussed anything as personal as religion, I would have only had positive things to say about Scientology.”

Regardless, Beck probably doesn’t like being tied to this story in this manner.