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Album release news: yes, the Christina Aguilera Christmas album comes out on Tuesday, as does Scattered, Smothered and Covered, the Hootie and the Blowfish covers and B-sides album. Meanwhile, P.J. Harvey releases Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, which features a duet with Thom Yorke of Radiohead...
...huge blue tent tipped with flashing red lights. Suddenly, the lights go down and a roar goes up. The British rock quintet Radiohead has taken the stage. Unsatisfied with traditional venues and their corporate-logo-covered interiors, the band is touring Europe with a portable circus-like tent. Singer Thom Yorke introduces each number with curt, dry wit; the music is forceful and precise, combining punkish attitude, tasteful art-rock grandeur and judicious electronic sampling. Jonny Greenwood taunts his guitar into some snarling arpeggios and, switching instruments, adds warm, supportive keyboard colors to other songs. This is the sound...
...case in point is the first track, "Everything in its Right Place," which, contrary to what the title suggests, is a gentle-sounding, amorphous mass of pipe-organ, electronic speech manipulation and heartbeat-like pulse pierced by Thom Yorke's familiar wail...
...National Anthem" is like Ravel's "La Valse" for the next century-musical layers of bass, drum, piano, strings, and big band horns float in one by one past Thom Yorke's flattened, metallic voice and reach a furious point before the inevitable debacle...
...song on the album. A comment on one Radiohead website called the track "a blatantly stupid attempt at making a cheesy dance song." The song, however, is intensely aware of its own artificiality, as given in the title. The lyrics make repeated references to "bunkers," and the counterpoint of Thom Yorke's bare voice against the drum machine conjures images of confinement...