Disappeared. Faded. Radiohead had gone away. Away from applauding crowd, away from servile chorus of critics. Away from the business that want to label you, just to sell you better. Far away, hidden in the ethereal web, in a .com, for many months Thom Yorke didn't compose anything. Then had come sampled rhythms, electronic plots and new writing methods. With OK COMPUTER, the immersion in the technological world produced songs that searched to decode its influences and consequences about human life. With KID A, is the same technology to speak, let to express itself through the annulment of the musician's personality in the creative process of machines. "Everything in it's right place", declaims the title of the songs that opens KID A, but nothing seems to be as before. In THE NATIONAL ANTHEM", Thom waits over a minute to sing, to perform few words and disappear, before the intrusion of jazz winds. The song "in the way of Radiohead" appears after 3 tracks. Glittering guitars and a siren on the background announce Thom Yorke, held at the beginning, and after dragged by a melody in a falsetto that get mixed up with the violins of the orchestra. With OPTIMISTIC and IN LIMBO seems strange to find a chorus, something that in joint with the stanza reaches the complexity of later Beatles. Also IDIOTEQUE undergoes a loud aggression that cut it into little rhythmical strips, while voice separates in the audio channels. In few minutes are placed one upon another the sounds more unexpected: mad charlestons, horror movie's effect, cash-desks and metal balls that collide with each other. Radiohead are here inside, lost in the circuits, able to trace just in some frames (like MORNING BELL). Last 50 seconds - without a title - are the soundtrack of an ascent to heaven. Now Radiohead are over there, wrapped in the perfection of machines. The risult is a grow of a cult that nothing will be able to scratch.
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Advantages: Outstandingly original, groundbreaking album. Disadvantages: Lovers of Radiohead's perfectly crafted pop songs may not like this huge shift in style.
PoshPhil 10.10.2000 ·
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