Beck's new album will come in sheet music only

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While the rest of the recording industry falls all over itself to find new, cutting-edge ways to release music, Beck is turning the clock back about 100 years with his new album, due out this December. Song Reader isn’t really an album, per se, so much as a collection of 20 different songs that exist only as individual pieces of sheet music. The whole thing comes packaged together with full-color “heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song” in a hardcover carrying case. The idea is to get each purchaser—those that read sheet music, at least—to put their own personal spin on each track, so each listener can become Beck, sort of.

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