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Re: OT: New Radiohead- what do you think?



My quick rundown (after about 4 listens)

It's short - only 8 songs of 4-5 minutes each.

It's about as different from their last 10 years of work as Kid A was
from the stuff before it. The emotive string orchestration is almost
completely gone. Instead, it's a lot of loop-based music. (Not live
looping per say, but that the music sounds like it's made of repeating
clips rather than live instrumentation.)

At first, it sounds a lot like a Thom Yorke solo cd. It sounds a lot
like the Eraser. It also seems a lot closer to Talking Heads' "Remain
in Light" album, in that the first 4 songs seem to be made of many
short-duration sound clips (not afrofunk though), and the second half
is more ballads and long-form songs.

There's a lot of apparent influence from live looping, but I'm not
sure if it really *is* live looping. For example, Thom Yorke'll sing a
line, then it will come back as a musical element with a lot of
distortion. In several songs, it comes back as subtle irregular loops.

It's good. "In Rainbows" was the album that made me a fan. Between
then and now I bought everything back to Kid A, including Jonny's and
Thom's solo albums. If it weren't for Thom's voice, I'd think it was a
completely different band. (Drummer) Phil Selway has a solo record out
too, which I haven't heard...I think it would've been cool to hear his
voice in a track or too.

There's already an internet meme where Thom's dance from the "Lotus
Flower" video has been superimposed over Beyonce's "Put a Ring on It"
song. It's pretty funny.

I think my favorite song is "Little by Little".

-- 
Matt Davignon
mattdavignon@gmail.com
www.ribosomemusic.com
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