The Musical Kaleidoscope
Signed comment about musical influences... Something odd occurs toward the end of "Odelay," a new album by the young artist known simply as Beck. As …
On Beck's 'Odelay': "Just past the one-minute mark, Beck's edgy white-boy rap abruptly dissolves into a foreign sound that turns out to be, of all things, Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony. Dissonant chords make a strangely natural segue out of the rough rap texture before the symphony's B-minor theme offers its mournful strain."