catalog# 32764M
Artist: Radiohead
Format: Vinyl LP
DiscSet: 2
Genre: Alternative
Condition: New
Label: EMI/Virgin
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Radiohead::Amnesiac
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Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into experimentation, Radiohead and its record label promoted Kid A as just that - a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just around the corner, really, would be the real record, the one to satiate fans looking for the next OK Computer, or at least guitars. At the time, people bought the myth, especially since live favorites like Knives Out and You and Whose Army? were nowhere to be seen on Kid A. That, however, ignores a salient point - Amnesiac, as the album came to be known, consists of recordings made during the Kid A sessions, so it essentially sounds the same.
Since Radiohead designed Kid A as a self - consciously epochal, genre - shattering record, the songs that didn't make the cut were a little simpler, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Amnesiac plays like a streamlined version of Kid A, complete with blatant electronica moves and production that sacrifices songs for atmosphere. This, inevitably, will disappoint the legions awaiting another guitar-based record (that is, after all, what they were explicitly promised), but what were they expecting? This is an album recorded at the same time and Radiohead has a certain reputation to uphold.
Where Kid A had shock on its side, along with an admirably dogged desire to not be conventional, Amnesiac often plays as a hodgepodge. True, it's a hodgepodge with amazing moments: the hypnotic sway of Pyramid Song and You and Whose Army?, the swirling I Might Be Wrong, Knives Out, and the spectacular closer Life in a Glasshouse, complete with a drunkenly swooning brass band. But, these are not moments that are markedly different than Kid A, which itself lost momentum as it sputtered to a close. Radiohead proves that they are one of the best bands of their time. (two 10" LPs)
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