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Well look what we have here-- a new Beck single! Apparently, this coming Monday, iTunes will release the new Beck song "Timebomb", all by its lonesome. (All other digital stores have to wait a week, until August 28.) No album, no EP, no superstar remixes. Just one song. Could this be yet another one of Beck's ploys to turn the music industry upside-down?

According to a press release, "The lyric of "Timebomb" echoes some of the dark themes from that album [The Information] but is packaged in digital gris gris thunder as only Beck can do it." OK then! Beck produced the track himself, and performs vocals and keyboard, while Brian LeBarton plays keyboards and guitar.

No word yet on whether or not this is what Beck and Jamie Lidell were up to at Infrasonic studios recently, but a press release hints that the song features "a whole gang of studio visitors on back-up vocals."

UPDATE: Jamie Lidell isn't on this track. Sorry!