Beck's new album 'Morning Phase' is streaming on iTunes

Morning Phase, Beck's first proper album since 2008, is currently streaming on iTunes, a full week before it's slated to be released.

Check it out here.

If you think to yourself that Phase is Beck's best album since Sea Change, that might be because Hansen brought back the team responsible for his 2002 classic. Among the musicians is Beck's father David Campbell.

The result is what Beck has called "California music."

"I'm hearing the Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash, Gram Parsons, Neil Young - the bigger idea of what that sound is to me," Beck said in an interview with Rolling Stone.

Unlike most of Beck's words, the title Morning Phase is not randomly strung together. The album loosely focuses around the concept of waking up.

"It's not heavy-handed, but it's in there," Beck said. "There's this feeling of tumult and uncertainty, getting through that long, dark night of the soul - whatever you want to call it. These songs were about coming out of that - how things do get better."

Beck's last album of any sort was 2012's Song Reader, a book of sheet music meant to be played by the customer.