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If you’ve been patiently waiting for the first new Beck album in four years we’ve got some bad news for you: If you can’t read sheet music you’re out of luck because his new collection of 20 songs is pure notation and doesn’t include any actual recordings of him performing the songs.

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Beck’s follow-up to 2008’s Modern Guilt is called Beck Hansen’s Song Reader and according to a statement by McSweeney’s, “In the wake of Modern Guilt and [2006's] The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form — twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded.”
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“The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you’d expect from their author,” the statement continues. “But if you want to hear ‘Do We? We Do,’ or ‘Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard,’ bringing them to life depends on you.” In other words if you want to hear the songs you’ll have to listen to fans’ versions of the songs on the McSweeneys site.
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Beck Hansen’s Song Reader will be released in December so we’d recommend starting music lessons soon just to be safe. So what do you think of Beck’s new non-album and will you pick it up or wait for the real thing? Let us know in the comments section below as you listen to some Beck Radio.
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