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Top/ Just a Souvenir is an album by Squarepusher, which was released to the general listening public on October 27, 2008 on Warp Records. The album's genesis came from a daydream, in which Tom Jenkinson envisioned a rock band performing a concert against the backdrop of a large, glowing coathanger. The performance quickly became surreal: among other things, a river forces the band to kayak whilst performing; the guitarist is able to accelerate or decelerate time at will; and every drum in the drummer's kit begins to switch places with one another. As such, the majority of the album consists of Jenkinson's own version of jazz fusion, threaded through with classical guitar, math rock and funk recordings. Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specializes in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète, and acid, with a significant jazz influence. Bottom/ Sea Change is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck and was released in September 2002. Inspired by the dissolution of a relationship, Sea Change received glowing reviews upon its release. Much of Beck's trademark recondite, ironic lyrics are replaced by more sincere, simpler lyrical content. On Sea Change, Beck eschews the heavy sampling of his previous albums for real, live instrumentation. Several songs have instrumental arrangements and compositions that are clearly influenced by the works of Nick Drake and Serge Gainsbourg. In particular, the song "Round the Bend" recalls Drake's instrumentation from "River Man" and melody from "Know". The orchestration of "Paper Tiger" bears a striking similarity with that of Gainsbourg's "Melody" on the album Histoire de Melody Nelson. The original cover art for the album was used as an effigy in the music video for Beck's single "Lost Cause". The album was remastered and released by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab in June 2009.