Beck's "Song Reader" Is Beautiful, But You Can't Hear It

Jay Troop in this video is my former boss Kathy Yates' son. Very cool.

Song Reader, the latest album from Beck, isn't easy to listen to. Why? It's available exclusively on sheet music. This struck fans (and us) as incredibly annoying at first--especially those without any musical ability. But once we laid our eyes on the stuff, we were sold. In order to hear the song for ourselves, we reached out to a New York City based band, named Contramano, to record "Old Shanghai," a song from the album.