Amnesiac
Having bloomed from the same recording sessions as *Kid A*, Radiohead’s fifth album offers an alternate angle on the restive experimentation of their post-‘90s phase. *Amnesiac* undoubtedly shares its predecessor’s electronic digressions (“Like Spinning Plates”) and jazz flourishes (most potently on the tumbling, percussive “Dollars & Cents”). But it also offers something even more challenging, replete with crumbling orchestral builds and—as on the plaintive “Morning Bell/Amnesiac”—invigorating bursts of Thom Yorke’s matchless falsetto.
After months of waiting, and several tentative release dates, Amnesiac finally hit store shelves last Tuesday. Since last October, we ...
As the rapid response to ‘Kid A’, there’s an expectation that ‘Amnesiac’ will at last reveal Radiohead‘s secret cache of pure-gold songs, the band stepping out of their closely guarded shadows, peeling off their techno-terrorist balaclavas and releasing the music they always [I]really[/I] wanted to make.
In between arena tours and Number One albums, Radiohead want to get away from it all.
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