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album2002

Sea Change

Disciplines:
alternative rock
songwriting/singer-songwriter

Summary

A 2002 album by Beck marking a departure into a single-genre heartbreak album, notable for its use of a Shepard tone in 'Lonesome Tears'.

Core Contribution

Represents the Shepard tone's appearance in mainstream alternative rock.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Alternative rock

Allied Works

Lonesome Tears Rock Bottom

Contemporaries & Peers

Morning Phase Kid A

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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