Album Review: Various - Beck Song Reader

The pitch: release a book of sheet music, then make like a kid at Christmas as the stars (Jack White, Laura Marling, the bloke from Wilco, etc.) send you covers. There’s too much respect for Beck here. If you can spot a single risk taken you win a Magic Ear award. The best effort from these illuminati might be – gasp – Norah Jones, who delivers Just Noise with authority. Song Reader is an interesting idea on paper; hopefully these tepid results won’t kill the concept.