11 musicians cover Beck's Grammy-nominated 'Morning Phase' album

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Brian Anthony Hernandez
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Eleven musicians are using YouTube to pay tribute to Beck, whose Morning Phase will vie for Album of the Year against albums from Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Pharrell at Sunday's Grammys.

Each artist covered a song from the album, experimenting with Beck's melodies and harmonies with vocals, guitars, strings, a cappella and more.

Beck is slated to duet with Coldplay's Chris Martin at the Grammys. They'll likely perform a song from his downtempo Morning Phase, which last year he notably made available to stream at no cost to airplane passengers using Gogo Inflight Internet.

Listen to the 11 covers and then listen to the originals in the album sampler video at the bottom. Morning Phase, Beck's 12th studio album, is nominated for five Grammys.

And if some of these tunes ring eerily familiar, there's a reason for that: Beck considers Morning Phase as a sequel of sorts to his seminal 2002 record Sea Change, from which he brought back several musicians.

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