
- sincere, heartfelt, direct lyrics
- singer-songwriter album
- themes of desolation, loneliness, heartbreak, solitude
- mix of straight acoustic instrumentation with electronic gestures and effects
- bvs: (from 2nd verse)
monotone, verbed. alternating with wordless falsetto ‘oohs’
- b/ground electronics – spacey delayed feedback
builds to a climax, filter swept, stops at the peak
02 ‘Paper Tiger’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck
- middle: phased vox for 2 lines
- low key, bored/depressed vox vs. dramatic bombastic interjections (strings, elc gtr)
- tension and release: sliding note – down to correct pitch on the 1
- tension and release: bvs come in on the tonic chord
- orchestrate like Air; dry drums, slow strings, languid bass, rhodes keys, breathy vox
- climbing melody – shepard tone
05 ‘Lost Cause’ – Sea Change (2002) – Beck
- backwards sounds
- white noise percussion fizzing
- atmos: noises: low res white noise explosions, reverbered
- atmos: big verb tambourine on the 3rd beat of every 2nd bar
- chorus: pause before 2nd half of line;
‘and i wanted to be’ – full chord sequence – ‘a good friend’
- ring modulated piano (2nd verse)