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...better suited to our friend winter—its placid textures embracing days and nights in—it stands as one of the most compositionally and emotionally interesting releases of the summer.Thom Yorke: “The Eraser”Much digital ink has been spilled about Thom Yorke??s surprise solo album, “The Eraser,” both prior to and since its July 11 debut.As rumors about new Radiohead releases—or break-ups, depending on what blog you were reading—circulated, the internet hype machine seemed content...
...random, dreamy noodling: the calm before the storm. “Easy Does It” kicks these jangly sleigh bells, gently strummed acoustic guitars, and heavenly harp right off a cliff to good effect. The possessed drums and guitars spar in a spastic soloing bout, while Thom Yorke??s bastard child croons a siren’s song to the wild things...
...refuge where looks or personality are inconsequential beside the words on the page, she replies, with some heat, “That’s so stupid! It doesn’t have to matter; it can go either way. I mean, Radiohead: does anybody really care about Thom Yorke??s personality? I don’t think so. But everybody cares about Courtney Love’s personality, and Hole sells records. It doesn’t have to be any one way.” (Notably, Entertainment Weekly called Wurtzel “the Courtney Love...
...horn section. The grinding drums and bass are anchored in what is ultimately recognizable as good old-fashioned rock-sensibility, despite the otherworldly wailings of whatever that new-fangled spooky sounding instrument Jonny Greenwood is playing these days. The song could never be straight-up however, and Thom Yorke??s distorted wailings and pantings ensure that it will not be mistaken for such. In fact, it is Yorke??s manic, disconcerting energy that carries much of the album, and gives the two slower songs their subtle bite when he lets his ridiculously, stunningly beautiful voice soar...
...ethereal vulnerability of Yorke??s voice is at its best here in a way that has been absent from the new albums. The conspicuous failure on the album is “Everything In Its Right Place”: The song that heralded Radiohead’s shift from guitars into the keyboard realm as the eerie first song on Kid A sounded like a band gradually materializing out of the ether on a barren landscape. On Wrong, it sounds like a flat and somewhat aimless keyboard sample underlaying Yorke??s vocals. When deprived...
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