The Eraser - Thom Yorke > Reviews

Advantages: Moments of brilliance, original inventive sound.
Disadvantages: Extremely unaccessible for a casual listener

Somewhere in the distant shire of Oxford, Thom Yorke sits with a laptop under his nose and a broad smile on his face. Very few would take pleasure from an album as politically draining as The Eraser, but if anybody is to smile about it, you can count on it being the Radiohead star himself. Here is a man who should never have been a rock star. An agitated grumbler with the audacity to tell his own fans to "calm down and shut the f- up" should a gig ... Read review

Advantages: The 41 minutes of music!
Disadvantages: Not for everybody to enjoy...

...frontman, first solo album. Though the album was produced along with Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich and has the participation of his band partner Jonny Greenwood in some piano chords, this is much more than a Radiohead thing. I must start to present it as a electronic record. Of course that's the path Radiohead started do explore since "Kid A", but in this album that's not a peculiarity, not just a thing you should notice, that's the whole ... Read review

Advantages: Great Lyrics, Original Sound.
Disadvantages: Possibly a bit samey at some points.

Track Listing: The Eraser, Analyse, The Clock, Black Swan, Skip Divided, Atoms For Peace, And It Rained All Night, Harrowdown Hill, Cymbal Rush. Many people, myself included, were waiting with bated breath for the release of The Eraser. Having been a Radiohead fan for as long as i can remember being into music, i have enjoyed watching Radiohead change and grow from depressing and sad, to expressive and mad - with Thom Yorke's darker and more personal ... Read review