10 Best Sequels To Incredible Albums

4. Beck - Morning Phase

In a press release for the record it was stated that Morning Phase is the "companion piece" to Beck’s eighth studio album, ‘Sea Change’. With Sea Change being released in 2002 and Morning Phase in 2014 there was a 12-year gap in-between. So what made Beck want to return to the acoustic heartbreak sound found on Sea Change all those years later? Beck originally started demoing a follow-up to Sea Change in the mid-noughties, only for the tapes to be stolen whilst on tour (with no backups). Beck found this devastating and went in a completely different direction on albums that followed Sea Change.

But Beck had an acoustic itch to scratch and wanted to venture back to the melancholic melodies of old. He returned to his heavy heart folk sound, adding instruments like the mandolin, harp and piano to arrangements. Songs like ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Heart Is a Drum’ conjure a tender Beck trying to find some calm in the world. He’s said his depression on the record comes not from a breakup (like it did on Sea Change) but rather a spinal injury that had Beck not being able to record music for a long period of time.

Mojo voted Morning Phase the ‘Best Album of 2014’ and it won ‘Album of the Year’ at the 2015 Grammy Awards, which irked Kanye West no end.