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...title track to the hypnotic percussion of “Black Swan” (featured in the closing credits of the summer’s most insidious film, “A Scanner Darkly”) and the tin-pan drum machines and expansive bass of “Harrowdown Hill,” the record’s nine tracks reassert Yorke’s musical genius.It’s a simple album, content to rely on competent electronic drums, synthesizer flourishes, producer Nigel Godrich’s occasional esoteric grace notes, and, most notably, Yorke?...
...much of The Eraser, Yorke's choirboy voice, usually pickled in distortion, comes through cleanly, and he conjures up some clear ideas too. Harrowdown Hill slips into the head of David Kelly--the British whistle-blower who committed suicide after alleging that Tony Blair had oversold the case for war in Iraq--creating a portrait of anger and futility that's overwhelmingly sad. More often than not, though, Yorke speaks for, and to, himself. On Atoms for Peace, he sings, "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes ... No more talk about the old days...
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