To Play The New Beck Album, You Need To Read It First


Beck didn’t record his newest album; he wrote it. The 20 unreleased tracks on Song Reader appear as pages of classic sheet music. [1 of 3]

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on Beck Hansen’s Song Reader, available in December. WEBSITE TWITTER FACEBOOK PREORDER


Those pages include original art by Marcel Dzama, Jessica Hische, Josh Cochran, and others, and ask us to reconsider what an album really is. [2 of 3]


Beck invites readers to record their own versions of the songs and upload those recordings to the Song Reader website. Listen to a few now. [3 of 3]

Images courtesy of McSweeney’s; Beck photo by Gina Ribisi.

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