Beck has unveiled a video for his track “Heart Is A Drum“.

The track features on the singer’s 2013 album Morning Phase . For the video, Beck worked with British music video director Sophie Muller, who is best known for her collaborations with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Blur, Garbage and a host of others.

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The promo features the death of a young woman, who gets taken away by the Grim Reaper. A modern-day Beck is shown walking alongside a younger version of himself and with Death too.

Last weekend (July 26), Beck was joined onstage by Jack White at a gig at the Providence Performing Arts Center. You can watch footage here.

On Monday (July 28), Beck released a recorded version of his Song Reader project, which features Jack White along with Jarvis Cocker and others including Laura Marling and Norah Jones.

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The Song Reader tracklist:

Moses Sumney – ‘Title Of This Song’

Fun. – ‘Please Leave A Light On When You Go’

Tweedy – ‘The Wolf Is On The Hill’

Norah Jones – ‘Just Noise’

Lord Huron – ‘Last Night You Were A Dream’

Bob Forrest – ‘Saint Dude’

Jack White – ‘I’m Down’

Beck – ‘Heaven’s Ladder’

Juanes – ‘Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard’

Laura Marling – ‘Sorry’

Jarvis Cocker – ‘Eyes That Say “I Love You”‘

David Johansen – ‘Rough On Rats’

Jason Isbell – ‘Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings’

Marc Ribot – ‘The Last Polka’

Eleanor Friedberger – ‘Old Shanghai’

Sparks – ‘Why Did You Make Me Care?’

Swamp Dogg – ‘America, Here’s My Boy’

Jack Black – ‘We All Wear Cloaks’

Loudon Wainwright III – ‘Do We? We Do’

Gabriel Kahane with Ymusic – ‘Mutilation Rag’