Radiohead
Amnesiac 2LP
XL Recordings
XLLP783B
This second helping from the sessions that produced the preceding Kid A will probably strike close listeners as a bit more structured, though it'll be difficult to determine whether that's simply because the peregrinations of the last album have prepared them for the trips to the outer limits taken here. Those expecting a U2-like return to tuneful, anthemic guitar-rock will have their hopes dashed upon a rock of colourful electronic experimentation and moody, studio-enhanced madness. The piano-based Pyramid Song and the martian-gospel-choir ballad You and Whose Army? might placate verse-chorus-verse traditionalists slightly, but the sampler-in-a-trash-compactor Pulk / Pull Revolving Doors and the pointillistic ambience of Hunting Bears attest to Radiohead's continued nonconformist tendencies. Amnesiac opens with the claustrophobic, synth-bedecked Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box and closes with the dixieland funeral march Life in a Glass House.
NEW / Released in 2001 / Reissue 2016
Tracklist:
A1 Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
A2 Pyramid Song
A3 Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
B1 You And Whose Army?
B2 I Might Be Wrong
C1 Knives Out
C2 Morning Bell/Amnesiac
C3 Dollars & Cents
D1 Hunting Bears
D2 Like Spinning Plates
D3 Life In A Glasshouse