Sea Change

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Sea Change is a folk rock album by Beck and was released in September 2002. Inspired by the dissolution of a relationship, Sea Change received glowing reviews upon its release and is considered a major highlight in Beck's canon of released works.

Sea Change features ornate string arrangements and soft acoustic guitar finger-picking. Much of Beck's trademark recondite, ironic lyrics are replaced by a more sincere, simpler songwriting. On Sea Change, Beck eschews the heavy sampling of his previous albums for instrumentation. With its lovelorn lyrics, critics have compared Sea Change to Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and the works of Nick Drake. Paper Tiger draws inspiration from Serge Gainsbourg, in particular the groundbreaking 1971 album Histoire de Melody Nelson.

Sea Change peaked at #8 on Billboard's Top 200 chart and was eventually certified gold in March 2005. In the UK charts, it would peak at #20.

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Track listing

All songs written by Beck Hansen.

1. "The Golden Age" - 4:35
2. "Paper Tiger" - 4:36
3. "Guess I'm Doing Fine" - 4:49
4. "Lonesome Tears" - 5:38
5. "Lost Cause" - 3:47
6. "End of the Day" - 5:03
7. "It's All In Your Mind" - 3:06
8. "Round the Bend" - 5:15
9. "Already Dead" - 2:59
10. "Sunday Sun" - 4:45
11. "Little One" - 4:27
12. "Side Of The Road" - 3:23

Samples

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Personnel

• Beck - Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Banjo, Harmonica, Percussion, Piano, Glockenspiel, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), String Arrangements, Art Direction, Design, Wurlitzer
• Jason Falkner - Percussion, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr)
• James Gadson - Drums
• Bob Ludwig - Mastering
• Elliot Scheiner - Surround Mix
• Nigel Godrich - Synthesizer, Percussion, Keyboards, Producer, Engineer, String Arrangements, Mixing
• Smokey Hormel - Guitar (Acoustic), Percussion, Piano, Guitar (Electric), Saxophone, Vocals (bckgr), Slide Guitar, Tape Recorders, Bamboo Flute, Bamboo Saxophone
• Joey Waronker - Percussion, Drums, Vocals (bckgr), Beatbox
• Suzie Katayama - Cello
• Kevin Reagan - Art Direction, Design
• David Campbell - Conductor, String Arrangements
• Justin Meldal-Johnsen - Percussion, Piano, Bass (Electric), Glockenspiel, Vocals (bckgr), Bass (Upright)
• Jason Faulkner - Percussion, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (bckgr)
• Roger Manning - Synthesizer, Banjo, Percussion, Piano, Harmonium, Vocals (bckgr), Clavinet, Wurlitzer, Indian Banjo
• Darrell Thorp - Assistant Engineer
• Autumn DeWilde - Cover Photo
• Ekaterina Kenney - Creative Director
• Jeremy Blake - Artwork

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