Amnesiac Reviews
Feb 24th, 2008 by admin
Amnesiac, the 5th album of the band, was undoubtedly one of the most experimental moments of Radiohead but yet an album that was a success! The album was recorded while Kid A was about to be released and hit the stores in 2001. What did the great music magazines wrote about that great album?
Pitchfork wrote: “we’ve been hearing that this album, recorded during the same sessions as last year’s wildly experimental Kid A, would serve as a return to the band’s mid-90’s roots. Now we come to find it was all a lie“. It adds “Despite the heights attained by much of Amnesiac, I prefer Kid A for a number of reasons. Quality aside, the questionable sequencing of Amnesiac does little to hush the argument that the record is merely a thinly veiled b-sides compilation; Kid A played out as a cohesive whole that evoked panic and paranoia as well as surrealism and disorientation. Still, Amnesiac’s highlights were undeniably worth the wait, and easily overcome its occasional patchiness“.
NME’s Victoria Segal wrote: “Amnesiac hints at a darker, better truth: this is a record that choses its rarefied isolation, feels its elevation, a damaged record, yes, but not a fragile one. Radiohead are in their heaven and nothing’s right with the world“.
Jon Pareles writes in Rolling Stone: “Amnesiac is the work of a band determined to pursue its most wayward and musicianly impulses wherever they might lead. As such, it’s clear proof that the progressive-rock impulse survived the twentieth century. On Amnesiac, which was made during the same recording sessions that yielded Kid A last year, Radiohead have set out to erase all that their listeners once expected. Acting like a bunch of artists - not, as in most current rock, a business consortium touting a consistent product - Radiohead continue to slough off the style that made them standard-bearers for anthemic Brit pop in the 1990s”.
Finally Sputnikmusic.com wrote: “Should you buy this? The answer is one that is cause for pause. If you haven’t gotten a Radiohead album in your life, don’t get this one. The ambience filled diddies and airy tracks can be intimidating to the first time listener. But if you are into Radiohead, and particularly enjoyed Kid A, then the recommendation is given. Thom Yorke’s signature warble and some brilliant Radiohead-ish songs are present throughout the album, even though there’s some dirt to dig through to get the good ones. But the way Radiohead works in different styles, even if for one or two tracks, makes for an entertaining listen, to say the least. They always fit an unexpected style into every one of their albums, and on Amnesiac, it’s no different“.
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