Christopher O'Riley
True Love Waits - Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead

THE RADIOHEAD REVIEW THAT WAS MISSING!
After many reviews of Radiohead's albums, here's one about their music.

Few doubt now that the music of Radiohead has influenced much of the recent years' rock music (Muse being a prime example), but that their music is now being studied almost philologically by considering only the piano sheet music, or being reinterpreted in a Jazz style, recognizes the sure greatness and stylistic innovation, despite their use of rock's typical stylistic elements which present nothing new.

This album by Christopher O'Riley retains the pathos and inner anguish of R.H. that Tom Yorke expresses so well through the voice/instrument/word as well as during the piano-solo moments (as seen in concerts), and here they are elevated to a total unity, though not always successfully; it is undeniable, however, that some of these songs do not diminish the greatness of the original compositions (made of the instrumental ensemble + voice) but instead enhance the dramatic sense, only using the piano's signature.
In some songs like Karma Police, Airbag, or Everything in its Right Place, the pathos and atmosphere seem, in my opinion, to emerge better, being perfectly recreated and enhanced here, as they already create in the original versions.

In any case, no one should expect to listen to a rock album; what is heard is as far removed from that music as one might imagine; if a comparison was to be dared, it might seem like listening to music played by our Ludovico Einaudi or encountering some Michael Nyman's diversions from his piano lessons.

In conclusion, not always a "light" listening and with some overly elaborate piano passages, but an album that, provided you find it, I took 20 days to get it (yet it's a Sony edition!), deserves attentive home listening and for the countless Radiohead lovers, this is a CD for fans only...
Could this be the future for the next Kid A?