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Yorke himself is a prophetic figure. Listening to him sing, “I wish I was special”, it became hard to imagine how the song had ever made sense before Radiohead??s overwhelming fame. And “No Surprises” sounds like it was written yesterday about today’s America; when Yorke intoned “Bring down the government / They don’t, they don’t speak for us,” the audience roared with cathartic acclaim...
...Solar System,” only to morph into the welcome sounds of a running river and melodic, lightly strummed guitar. The album’s climax hits with the title track, where layers of dramatic vocals mix with jarring drum loops in an almost sacred blend that recalls Radiohead??s Kid A. Like that unconventional and somewhat unsettling album, Mount Eerie constantly defies expectations. —Christopher A. Kukstis
With the aid of the breathy, nightclub-esque vocals of Sara Wajnberg ’04, their band transformed Led Zepplin’s “The Rain Song” and Radiohead??s “Paranoid Android,” two loud rock anthems, into soft, slow and yet powerful jazz songs...
...song is typical, in this respect, of the whole album. It begins softly, with the strumming of an acoustic guitar and Harcourt’s velvety voice. As the song progresses, the instrumentation fills out, blossoming at the chorus in a climax of strings and guitar accompaniment reminiscent of Radiohead??s ballads...
...fuzzy, overblown guitars and driving drums with “Shot Shot,” the opening song and lead single. Harder-edged and more condensed than anything Gomez have previously done, the song runs less than two and half minutes. The insistent three note riff is reminiscent of Radiohead??s “National Anthem,” before Gomez subvert it with a wicked saxophone stab and a blues-flecked chorus...