Thom Yorke/Nigel Godrich = The Eraser

I'm exicted for this.

http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002502412

love thom

-- Tim Finney (tfinne...) (webmail), October 17th, 2005 1:50 AM. (Tim Finney) (link)

haha i love this guy, so pretenious.

and don't call it an album, it's a project grouping of sound developments. also: labels are for canned goods, NOT PEOPLE.

In what sense?

I hope this solo album doesn't mean in essence, it's Hail To The Thief II coming out on two different (one 'lectro, one geetars) discs.

xpost

I respect that some of their fans have been divided since OK Computer, but I personally really dig the electronic element that they've added to their music. Alot of that come from Nigel, I'm sure, but if they switch up producers for the new album (like they plan to do), it should be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Regardless, I don't think a new Radiohead album will be considered "jumping the shark", especially not with that attitude going into it.

What does this mean??

There's a bootleg compilation around called "Towering Above The Rest" (you can apparently find it in some record stores or google for the d/l) which collects most of them. Out of about 40 there's a nice compilation of 10/15 to be made, but it won't have the coherence of any of their albums. Well, possibly Amnesiac.

Not catering to my whims and desires and such. But I could not be less over them. I was fully planning on being amazed by the new songs.

love thom

hail to the thief is great

Also, I now have The Eraser. It's good. Not great, but good.

Think it'll grow on you?

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0228,phillips2,36349,22.html

Backdrifts sounds like an overly positive/happy Bjork song

The title track, "And It Rained All Night", "Black Swan", "Harrowdown Hill" (which is where Dr. David Kelly was found and is quite obv what the song's about) and "Atoms For Peace" (check out that falsetto, didn't expect to find that on here.)

It's an elctronic album as such but these are pretty much all well rounded songs all short enough to be singles. No instrumentals, Yorke does use his voice like he can and not all the lyrics are obtuse meanderings. The constant refences to the passage of time is surely a reflection on Thom's status as a father and his increased profile as an enviromental campaigner. The beats do sound amateurish compared to those on say Homogenic for example but the thinness of them compliments the way that Yorke holds back the power of his voice (bar one or two occasions) so I think this is intentional and to criticise that misses the point somewhat.

"Harrowdown Hill" is a really great vocal too.

I am with you on your opinion of the new songs. As a huge supporter of radiohead (this is feedback of former RHMB fame, by the way), the new songs just leave me with disappointment.

I just listened to The Eraser for the first time. I'm pleasantly surprised. The album version of Cymbal Rush is much better than the way he has been playing it live lately with radiohead.

But I'm liking The Eraser, it's bringing back my Radiohead mojo a bit.

* not his real name

I s'pose the track 1 percussion is minimal enough for me though
the sample-cut-up part in track 1 from like 3:30 - 4:30 is pretty rad

"Worrywort" is the last Radiohead song that I really liked. The last one that had any warmth or humanity--while being musically more adventuresome than the plodding rock stuff that fills most of 'Hail to the Thief'.

So maybe I'll pick up this album. Cool.

Overall, it doesn't seem to have the character in the sounds, or songs of even the HTTT glitchy/electronic material. In fact compared to a lot of other glitchy-but-songwritery material out there it's a bit amateurish in excecution. As if more work really would help it shine.

It feels like quite an unconfident & shy (maybe just humble) debut, and not really diverging very much from Radioheads own material. I'm surprised at the lack of anything much in the way of hooks or melody. But perhaps that's intentional.

I dunno, I'm not making any final judgements just yet. I actually hated HTTT until maybe the sixth spin when finally it finished growing track-by-track.

??

I'd actually say this is true... for Worrywort :O

Cymbal Rush is one of the few tracks that actually feels like it flows properly (bleeps are good).

Hmm, I always enjoyed Worrywort
I actually don't feel like anything on this is much like Worrywort
Worrywort is so melodic

I completely disagree.

the songs may not be totally catchy but are definitely memorable and the vocal touches especially lend more personality than i've heard from thom yorke. i wouldn't call the record unpolished but it's certainly not overworked, which is a plus in my eyes. it hits the right balance between sketched and fleshed. the songs sound broken in, more familiar than the studio concoctions of amnesiac and HTTT.

i agree that it's a humble record. to me, that is a significant achievement.

There's something comforting in the fact that Yorke seems to have completely re-embraced his voice, compared to the intentional obscuring of vocals and murky lyrics on Kid A/Amnesiac. And even on most of HTTT, he used his voice more as an instrument ("the raindrops! the raindrops! the raindrops!") whereas here, there seems to be some conscience attempt to really draw attention to the lyrics (some of which are the best he's written - "the eraser", "black swan", the ones i can sort of makeout right now, anyway) but at the same time, without overdoing the vocals.

Nigel if it makes you feel any better this is really the nub of why it feels a little bit to home-made & amateurish to me (despite Godrich).

"This Postal Service record is so happy it makes me want to DROWN. Nigel, get the fuck over here!"

Any takers?

This is such a shocking turn for a Radiohead-related album that I feel like my world has been destroyed.

ouch ouch. The Knife by miles unfortunately if we're talking about Silent Shout vs. The Eraser. The Eraser just feels clumsy as all hell next to their lean electro mindscapes.

But then The Knife work quite a lot with ambiguity and shadows. I find it hard to imagine they would write a song like Harrowdown Hill (although I think they could, Neverland is pretty literal).

fandango, i guess i sort of hear what you're saying, i just think the one-beat-a-song thing was probably a conscious decision, not the result of amateurish execution.

I've enjoyed this far more than anything (barring "Worrywort" and "Kinetic") since 2000, too. Certainly beats the hell out of the plodding guitar-monster nonsense on 'Hail to the Thief'.

It is decidedly minor, but I think that's alright--cinematic rock seems to have been failing Yorke (& Co.) over the last few years, while minimalist (if amateurish) bleeps and boops have done pretty well. The stereo staging could've been a little more creative (like "Kinetic" or "Worrywort" which were minimalistic but a little more robustly so).

I doubt pretty seriously I'll buy another Radiohead album again in my life, but I'll buy this and the next solo release by Mr. Yorke.

-- jackl (jackluca...), June 1st, 2006.

Good, it's not just me then.

Hardly the same pressure as Radiohead's next album.

Sorry MitchellStirling, I guess I didn't read the thread very closely...

yeah, i know, they actually have more readers than some crappy mp3 blog. shocker.

This, and the results of the apparently lower expectations, are what I'm liking so far. I've had the feeling for a while that Radiohead have felt very earnestly (shocker) the demands of being Important Artists, etc., etc. This sounds (so far) like a more off-the-cuff, let's try stuff out, not be afraid to seem boring or not-innovative or unpolished.

On first listen it sounds like "And It Rained All Night" could be something great live. It's not all gold - "Skip Divided" is, er, fairly skippable, but there seems to be quite enough on the album to make it a worthwhile exercise. Some unusually soulful vocal inflections in places, or am I imagining them?

So is it good huh huh huh?

and his lyric "it's fucked up" is just fucking dumb

That's, by far, my favorite track on the album!

I like the percussive quality to the "fucked up" lyric, too. There's barely any vowel sounds in that phrase.

It disappoints me that one of my favorite new Radiohead/Thom Yorke songs will probably never be on an album or developed beyond just the piano & vocals phase--"I Want None Of This". Beauiful song.

I listened to it on the bus home.

It was oddly comforting.

Even if the record could aptly be described as Bono Sings Plaid.

I've listened to it twice. I'm not sure what I was expecting. I thought I would be either amazed or disappointed, with no grey space between, but I'm somewhere between those two.

It's not an immediate record, which I kind of like about it. It sounds like sketches, rather than Radiohead's oil paintings. Perhaps that's what I like about it, that it sounds like a Radiohead song sounds like before the band get their hands on it and turn them into Rock Anthems.

Could do with more Jonny, though. Sorry. Strange that it turns out it's him with the melodic sense.

I need to listen to it some more, I think, to properly digest it. It's not really something you can listen to while you do the dishes. Perhaps the post-lunch slump will be a good point to take the Hawkwind off and give this another listen.

I like that he seems to have left all of his breathing in. Even made it part of the track.

It's a bit... erotic.

(Yeah, I would say that, I know.)

Yorke's another one who often calls songs things that have nothing to do with the repeated lyrical hook.

This isn't to say they sound alike, because they don't. I think it's more because it's a whole, overlapping experience of an album, not a group of unrelated songs.

It's something to be listened to as a whole, like Music For 18 Musicians or something. Not a single and then another single.

Harrowdown Hill is great, it's the only Thom song I've heard that songs like 80s pop to me. I'm waiting for the dance remix.

I reckon "Cymbal Rush" ends up sounding a lot like an electronic "There There", just up a semitone.

But Nu ILM is too diverse to have a hivemind opinion on either Thom or RH.

However, I think it's just in the nature of Radiohead fans to feel persecuted or have their music disliked. Goes along with the territory. Which is pretty hilarious when someone is obviously buying those bazillion records they've sold.

TYIMSG - i hope they publish that!

Hmm, I think I will get this this weekend if I can.

ok well thanks to thom #2 we get "champagne and posh snacks" at the end of today's work day. thanks, thom #2!

But cool, #2!

thanks to thom #2 i have a bottle of veuve cliquot chilling in my fridge

i'm beginning to like this record bizness stuff

i liked it instantly so it will be interesting to see if it can grow from here.

the song went on a bit and sounded like thom yorke and the video was all that thing people were doing a wee while back to make landscape photos look like scale models

"Harrowdown Hill" is playing on my iPhone right now and it's fucking fantastic.

last time I threw it on I kinda noticed more filler but I still like this more than any Radiohead album except possibly Kid A.

I ripped the modeselektor remix of "skip divided" out of the mix the did for the TAPE blog - its not a live mix, so quality is v good, i think.

Awesome remix! Still my favorite song off the album. Oh, and if you haven't heard "Jetstream" from The Eraser sessions, you should.

remixes - bit late with these, aren't they? four tet, the field, burial, christian vogel + some of the already-heard ones (surgeon, modeselektor etc).

The best remix I've heard so far is the XXXChange mix of "The Eraser".

i never really listened to this more than once when it came out, but today it seems really great for some reason.

It has always been great. :)

My favorite thing to come out of these sessions is the b-side "Jetstream."

I finally got around to listening to the remixes. The Four Tet remix of "Atoms for Peace" is probably my favorite, and improves on the original, which was one of my least favorites when it came out. The Field remix of "Cymbal Rush" is great too. It sounds exactly like a Field song, so if you like his style you won't be disappointed.

Atoms for Peace is one of my two faves on the album, along with Skip Divided. Nice and constrained, and a great vocal. The remix does add a nice shift-up towards the end though. Am loving the Field rmx.

yeah i pull it out because of that remix review on pitchfork today, i might have to check those out, esp curious about the burial one

honestly this is probably as good as a lot of the recent radiohead records

totally.

The Four Tet remix of "Atoms for Peace" is probably my favorite, and improves on the original, which was one of my least favorites when it came out.

Yes, I thought so too on my first listen through the Rmxs album.

"A4P" was my favorite, too. shame i cant ever find a youtube of him playing it

"last time I threw it on I kinda noticed more filler but I still like this more than any Radiohead album except possibly Kid A.

― da croupier"

i was just about to say this. Kid A is still #1 in my heart, but this one is right behind it and i actually listen to it way more than Kid A at this point. 06 had two of the best albums of the 00's so far released in it, this and dilla's "Donuts" both of which i still rock pretty much all the time. both are absolute classics.

lol the atoms for peace remix reminds me of fucking "bad day" at the beginning

06 had two of the best albums of the 00's so far released in it, this and dilla's "Donuts"

I'll agree with both of these and raise you Tim Hecker's Harmony in Ultraviolet.

album is retarded good amirite

holy crap this remixes album is good.

agh I have been successfully resisting buying it but I feel my resolve crumbling

Am loving 'Analyse (Various remix)' - who are these guys and is their album as glitchy as that or is it more dubstep like what the reviews say?

http://i37.tinypic.com/sb4f47.jpg

FEELINGPULLEDAPARTBYHORSES written & played by Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, produced by Nigel Godrich.

THEHOLLOWEARTH written & played by Thom Yorke and produced by Nigel Godrich.

Packaged by Stanley Donwood.

leaking now.

Beware though, there are some really shitty MP3s out there that sound terrible and were clearly recorded with someone aiming a cheap mic at their record player.

Hmm. A tenner?

Seemingly sold out anyway ... (and/or can't add it to my "cart" at W.A.S.T.E)

http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/international/27790/Thom-Yorke-DOOM-making-a-whole-record-together-probably

hmm.

Wait, so doom might be on this burial/four tet/thom 12" that's coming out?

Holy shit, I'm kinda bummed about how high my expectations are getting for that!

I think they're just calling Thom a Four Tet and Burial collaborator, not implying that Doom is also on the 12".

holy moly.

Thom Yorke is after all primarily known for being a four tet and burial collaborator.

I like the stuff he's done with radiohead. You should check it out.

I found that cunnilingus review. Good god.

so. thom yorke’s solo album.
It’s-not-a-solo-album.
um, like, whatever. it sounds like a collection of radiohead demos.
Not exactly. More like song sketches before RH turn them into Rock Epics.
so that’s why it’s sparse, minimalist glitchtronica?
Sparse? Listen to it on headphones. Dense layers of Thom. Thom humming like a theremin. Hosts of angelchoir Thoms. Devil Thoms’ breathing woven into the rhythms… actually, it’s strangely erotic.
eeurgh!
No, really, this is the closest Thom has come to writing personal stuff, like, err, love.
featuring flying saucers and algebra? come off it. it’s just his Grumpy Old Man extended metaphors about politics again.
It’s not about lyrics, or even language. He slices up words themselves, stuttering, repeating. “Peel all of your layers off, I want to eat your artichoke heart” – this is about cunnilingus, isn’t it?
gross! he looks like a lizard!
Ah, yes! The salamander! He appeared to me in a dream, and gave me magical glasses to translate the Book Of Donwood, foretelling the Coming Apocalypse when the lost rivers of Clerkenwell rise up to wash London away…
have we taken our medication recently?
Err, no.

^^^^^I can't work out head or tail of this.

I dug out the Eraser after that Twist/Stuck Together stuff got leaked. I actually think I like this throwaway stuff when he's not trying to write Proper Songs a lot better. Anyway this thread made me dig out the remixes so we'll see what to make of those. I've generally not been a fan of his collaborations (tho that could be the fault of his collaborators. He's got one of those voices that no one seems to know what to do with.)

god, I never thought about the artichoke line in that way

recently I returned to the album, too, and really enjoy listening only to the last 4-5 tracks as if they were one, stunning EP. I definitely prefer side B to side A. such an underrated album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmurNrsa-90

^^^^^really oddly love this.

But yeah the second side of The Eraser is definitely where it all happens, especially towards the end.

That artichoke heart line is just so odd I don't know what to make it, but it's already established my mind is full of filth.

I was (just) reading Matt Groenig's comment about how he hated "TroutMask" the first time, but persevered as double albums were so expensive. And it ended up his favourite album of all time.

I think thesedays music is so cheap to come by, it's easy to hear something once and discard it and not *have* to try again, much less play it eight times as MattG did.

Which is a long way of saying "I got a cheap CD on holiday, didn't rate it"

Remixes commissioned for this so much better than the remixes for that last Radiohead album

otm about the second half of The Eraser. a few weeks ago i was at a coffeeshop late at night, only one in there, and the barista put on the Eraser. it was the first time i had heard it in a few years, and i had that same thought about how the second half of it is just amazing. i still think "Cymbal Rush" is the standout track, and ranks up there with the best radiohead songs.

I dunno, tho. Every time I listen to it and try to decide what my favourite song is, it shifts. The only song I'm not 100% on is Skip Divided, but even though that starts badly, it somehow manages to twist around and make me love it anyway by the end despite the unfortunate "number and location" hook. I think because it's so droney - if that's the one I'm thinking of, it's the one where it's only one chord and he just weaves in and out of these odd drone tonalities which is always complete bait for me.

The end of Cymbal Rush is just incredible, though. Though the song reminds me a lot (in terms of mood and theme) of Wolf At The Door, it's kinda like a bleepy version of that.

Just love Atoms For Peace so much, the little leaps and swoons that his voice makes on that just make me so unspeakably happy. I think that was the moment that he remembered that his voice really can be a thing of wonder. (I can p much count on the fingers of one hand the male singers I don't actively dislike.) And those phased-out synths on It Rained All Night - fucking hate the bassline on that, though. Clearly Thom Yorke has never seen that Kim Deal video about the problems with ~real bassists~ ugh ugh ugh. But the synths are so amazing.

I'm not keen on the remixes, though, sorry. Radiohead remixes are always just so tedious and worthy, I just can't get with them - well, the Four Tet one's alright, but a) that's one of my favourite songs on the album and b) Four Tet remixes are always so damn sparkly. I could just do without all that particular beard-stroking end of Nu-DM.

What I had forgotten were so great was the *B-sides*. But anything Radiohead related, the B-sides are almost always more interesting than what makes it on the proper album. Why don't they just make up the track lists and then just switch?

I don't know, it's funny what albums one persists with if one is determined to like them. There's usually *something* about it that hooks you in and makes you want to give something another go. I mean, that said, I was also determined to like Bodysong and I tell you, I have never made it more than three songs into that album, I just can't do it. (sorry Jonny - and Mel, don't hit me. I tried.)

The song, Atoms For Peace, I'm talking about.

The supergroup is just... WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???!?!?!?

Like, you take my favourite male singer of the past 20 years, and you stick him in a band with the WORST. BASSIST. EVAH. when the bass is the most important instrument and it's just ... tooth-gnashingly repellent to me.

I was also determined to like Bodysong and I tell you, I have never made it more than three songs into that album, I just can't do it.

whoa whoa WHOA. you need to go back. i mean, maybe it's not your thing. but bodysong is actually really, really really good. as much as i've come around to parts of The Eraser, bodysong will probably always be my favorite radiohead side-release kind of thing. it's amazing.

No no noooo me and Bodysong do not get on. It just inspires this instinctive "GET IT OFF GET IT OFF" reaction in me, and that really bothered me because I wanted so badly to really love it. It upsets me that I don't like it, but I can't put the time and effort into getting my head around it.

Did Ed O'Brien ever release any solo stuff? I discovered, completely by accident, that my all time number one favourite Radiohead song was actually written by him, which completely surprised me.

no solo stuff to my knowledge. the only radiohead song that i'm aware of that he wrote by himself was hunting bears?

No! Apparently he wrote Meeting In The Aisle as well! Which I always thought was Jonny but no, it was Ed.

oh, i guess wikipedia says there's other stuff:

Notable songwriting contributions to Radiohead include the opening riff on the songs "Go to Sleep", and the riff that makes up the closing song on The Bends, "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". He has also written the instrumental "Meeting in the Aisle", "Lull", and the music to "Big Boots".(citation needed)
He mainly helps to expand on the musical framework created by Thom Yorke, and is known for his contributions to "Karma Police", (he created the effect that closes the song and his backing vocals during the chorus are an integral part of the song), "Lucky" (creating the effect that opens the song) and "Treefingers" (his guitar chords were processed electronically to sound like ambient music).

I know, I know. I've read the stories that he basically goes round Yorke's house and kicks him out of bed and shakes him down for demo CDs he's being precious about, which he takes home and picks out the ones to make into proper songs and cleans them up and arranges them.

Which makes me wonder, given what was said upthread, if it's not Jonny that's missing from this album but Ed's magic editorial touch.

one last thing on bodysong (sorry!) - did you ever actually SEE the film, rather than just listening to the music? maybe i'm so fond of it because i also love the documentary, but the music is definitely amplified by the visuals, and vice versa. listen to that dreaded first song again, this time with scenes of conception:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rzsOgwzJk

Is it safe to watch at work? I don't have the bandwidth to watch a nine minute youtube at home, that'd take half an hour to load. :-(

(Blimey, I was just looking at Ed's wiki page - I was trying to figure out if he used a Copycat or a Memory Man to get that wibbly-wubbly analogue delay sound, but halfway through his list (just to the Electroharmonix section) I had a hard-on, what an effects connoisseur!)

probably not safe to watch at work, sadly, since there's a bunch of footage of childbirth.

this is easily my favourite post-okcomputer "radiohead" record

ditto.

there were b sides? i should check out the b sides.

there's always B-sides when it comes to RH/TY (haven't listened to them yet, tho)

Jetstream is amazing, one of the best things Thom has done. It should have been on the album in place of The Clock (the weakest song on The Eraser, to me).

Any thoughts on All For the Best (http://stereogum.com/79431/new_thom_yorke_-_all_for_the_best_stereogum_premie/mp3s/)? This and Atoms for Peace are hands down my favorite Thom Yorke songs—at least, the two I actually still listen to with any kind of regularity—mostly for this creeping melancholy that squeezes in through the repeating (up?)beat track and then kinda takes hold. Really affecting, for me at least.

Also: I remember being really impressed by the acoustic set of The Eraser on Henry Rollins when the album came out—in some cases more than the album tracks.

Jetstream is great, but I actually prefer Drunkk Machine (absolutely classic Yorkeian word salad)

I loved their version of All For The Best! (Miracle Legion are one of those bands I saw way too many times when I was growing up, just because of where I lived at the time, they were kinda local) It's a beautiful song and they did it well. (RH covers are often questionable quality at best. Wanted to murder them for butchering New Order)

Mainly because Thom + Andy Yorke duet = just completely amazing ear candy why have they never recorded one before (well, duh, it's obvious why they haven't, but still, I'm glad it happened.) Does make me wonder what could have happened had Andy Yorke ever had a more interesting backing band. (Some of the more interesting footage in that "Anyone Can Play Guitar" Oxford scene rockumentary (feh) was stuff from Andy Yorke + Jonny Greenwood's teenage band. Alternate histories with different combinations of Yorkes and Greenwoods could have been possible...)

Actually the Modeselektor remix of Skip Divided is OK, it's better than the original. Though I'm lukewarm on Modeselektor in general (the only thing they've been involved with that I unconditionally love is Moderat, but I suspect that's because Apparat is so full of wonderfully lovely that he makes everything better.)

Realising, though, that a great deal of my discomfort with Skip Divided is actually the same thing that draws me in and makes me intrigued by it every time. That this is a song that appears to be about obsessive limerent stalker-dom, written by someone who is the focus himself of so much stalky limerent obsession- makes it v v uncomfortable listening for me, like "here's a really ugly mirror I'm holding up to yr face" - is this what it feels like to be the focus of it? Which makes it horrible listening for an obsessive fan, and yet at the same time, the accuracy with which he utterly nails the emotions running through the head of the obsessive stalker freak is unnerving, it's easy to project a kind of "oh, he gets it" onto it.

Of course this is just my reading of the song - his lyrics are so opaque most of the time it's probably not about obsessive stalking at all, but an extended metaphor for the government's dismantling of the NHS and who really knows with him. You can't ever tell for certain, and that's what I like about the lyrics. (He's not quite at Bernard Sumner's level of "so nonsense it could be profound, so profound it could be nonsense" but I like the fact that you can project anything at all into it.)

Anyway.

"all for the best" is amazing.

I really expected this album to not be as good as it is when I first heard about it, since I kind of assumed that Thom Yorke's interests were channeled through Radiohead and refined into complete works. If anything, the lyrics on The Eraser (album, not track) seem more distinct and straightforward than most recent Radiohead material.

<3 that Modselektor remix so much. I cut it out of one of their live sets that had been posted online and must have listened to it a few dozen times before it was released. The remix 12" releases for this album are in a pretty gold foil outlining the Thom York/Stanley Donwood art from the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlp0jHF4KA

This album has aged really, really well.

I think the Atoms For Peace album is a bit better.

Weird. Loved The Eraser but not sure if I've ever managed to play Atoms For Peace all the way through.

Eraser has better melodies (maybe even, like, songs) and a more personal approach to production imo. I came around to Atoms for Peace, but after listening to that and Tomorrow's Modern Boxes this one is sounding amazing.

(TMB is great too, really love how it flows, but considering that The Eraser is a decade old, I think it could be released today and still sound fresh)

I find the Atoms For Peace album almost completely uninteresting. It's pleasant enough when a track comes up on shuffle but I never want to sit down and listen to it, whereas any random song off of The Eraser will make me stop and pay attention to it, and 75% of the time I'll navigate to the album in my library and play the whole thing.

it's already a decade old? how time flies, in my mind it had been released maybe two or three years ago. solid album, both the catchy melancholic guitar tune "black swan" (spooky that this was released way ahead of the lehman crash) and the funky "harrowdown hill" with the church organ background sound are excellent.

When "Harrowdown Hill" came on I was thinking "I remember liking this a lot, I wonder why?" and then that super-hooky pop chorus comes out of nowhere. I love how nothing in the track really changes or supports it.

DJP otm

also I am a big nerd and have all the remix 12" releases of The Eraser

this is such a great record. love it front to back. better than in rainbows and king of limbs

This album has aged really, really well.

― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:50 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So I haven't listened to this probably since it came out, but Ezekiel Kweku just tweeted a YouTube of "The Clock," and I thought, I bet I would really enjoy hearing this album again, if nothing else than as a snapshot of the era.

crazy, i was just listening to/singing this today. it really has aged well. i'd rank it above most radiohead albums at this point.

I really like the lower register voice he uses in 'Skip Divided', he should sing like that more often. I think this album is probably his peak as a vocalist, he has a really pure tone throughout.

This is still the best thing Yorke has done outside of Radiohead.

It's possibly better than The King of Limbs and A Moon Shaped Pool, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOpgklj5SE

No thoughts on the Suspiria soundtrack?

I picked it up the other day with the new Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks bootleg series and I ordered the first Cardigans album and that came in the mail the same day, so I'm just now getting to Suspiria.

It's. . . okay. At times, it feels like completely stock "scary horror movie music" with it's super high register shrilling strings and quick silences. The original songs Thom sings are nice, with 'Has Ended' coming up as my pick for the highlight.

"Has Ended" is my favourite as well, but I liked pretty much the whole thing (despite the messy track order of the second disc). And it works great in the movie - which I enjoyed as well.

Apparently Thom's releasing another solo album next year, too!

I revived the Suspiria soundtrack (originally for the Goblin soundtrack) a couple times. I think it’s great, some of his very best work

Revives the Suspiria thread, I meant

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