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...played a lot of that music while we were making it. That’s when the movie starts to get a feel. We listened to Radiohead and “Kid A” constantly, especially here in New York. And then the band Sigur Ros, from Iceland. Sigur Ros had never given their music to a movie, except I think a small movie in Iceland, and they let us use their music. That really influenced the movie. We couldn’t find the right piece of music to end the movie with, and I went...
...wonder what Radiohead are doing, releasing their third album in slightly over a year, particularly after a three-year hiatus between their triumphant OK Computer and the genre (and possibly fan-base) busting Kid A. And if Kid A alienated many during its stint as a bestseller, the companion album Amnesiac may have scared off even more with long periods of apparent downtime between opaque off-kilter songs exemplified by the single “Pyramid Song” and scarcely a decent hook on the album. By most counts then, this is hardly the ideal time to release...
Wrong is clearly not intended to be the definitive live Radiohead recording; the eight songs barely scratching the surface of the monster two-disc concert format so beloved of Dave Mathews and Pearl Jam. Wrong also carefully avoids all the obvious song choices from Radiohead’s drop-dead back catalogue: There are no souped-up takes on “Paranoid Android” or stadium-sized singalongs of “Karma Police.” Instead, the album showcases new songs from the last two albums, and in many cases infuses them with a new vitality...
...surrendering to the chorus of industrial-style whooshes and tinkles that are fast becoming Radiohead’s stock-in-trade. Both “I Might Be Wrong” and “Dollars and Cents” are given accomplished treatments on the album, proving that Radiohead have successfully incorporated electronica elements into both their live and studio performances. The band put to shame the dilettante rock groups who reckon that an occasional drum loop will establish their credibility, as well as making it abundantly clear that they have not entirely given up the rock attitude that...
...group may be the only contemporary rock act that matters, but its ambition often comes at the expense of warmth; the average Radiohead record is about as sweet as barbed wire. When live, however, the band opens up. The bells, whistles and scratches that dominated Kid A and Amnesiac are still there, but Thom Yorke's tenor is allowed to soar above rather than fight through them, revealing melodies in unexpected places. This set also includes the lovely True Love Waits, with its aching, Sarah McLachlan-esque chorus, "Just don't leave." What's next? A cuddly Rumsfeld...