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THE REVIEW
[Editor's Note: This review refers to music tracks downloaded (illegally?) from the web that may not correspond to those that will be released with the album's release]
Have you ever woken up with the absolute conviction that you had a beautiful dream?
That strange feeling that is supported by nothing but a few images, a flash... Those emotions that accompany you without ever clearly identifying themselves?
Well, after listening to this album, I experienced the same emotions that I clumsily attempted to describe above. I am not able to outline, catalog, or judge what I heard.
Because what I heard does not allow itself to be identified or codified through the common discourse of music.
Take a track like "The Gloaming" (track 8): York's lyricism expands until it gets lost in an absurdly out-of-tune and crackling sound base. Take a track like "Go To Sleep" (track 5): the acoustic guitars and the memory that returns to the times of "The Bends".
Take an album like this, tense in an impossible spasm toward new sonic shores without forgetting the "classicism" of the group's early works. If music means emotion, and those who follow Radiohead certainly know what I'm talking about, this is Music.
...and don't come to talk to me about intellectualism for its own sake or excessive experimentation, because the dream is mine and woe to anyone who attempts to interrupt its course.
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Summary by Bot
The review describes Hail To The Thief as an emotional, dreamlike album that defies traditional musical categories. It highlights Thom Yorke’s evocative lyricism and the blend of experimental sounds with elements recalling Radiohead's earlier works. The reviewer emphasizes the intense emotions conveyed, considering the album 'Music' in its purest form.Tracklist Lyrics
02 Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) (04:20)
03 Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs Out of the Sky.) (04:18)
04 Backdrifts. (Honeymoon Is Over.) (05:22)
05 Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) (03:21)
06 Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) (04:29)
07 We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) (04:56)
08 The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.) (03:32)
11 A Punchup at a Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.) (04:57)
12 Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.) (03:52)
13 Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.) (03:21)
14 A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.) (03:21)
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The members are Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. They evolved from guitar-based alternative rock into work that incorporates electronics and orchestration.120 Reviews
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By massimo1
The album seems simply FANTASTIC to me (perhaps because of the anticipation?)
To close, I would just like to emphasize how I liked this CD on the first listen, unlike the previous ones
By josi_
When I listen to 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) I feel Radiohead’s hysteria rewritten in a way I couldn’t have imagined.
A Wolf At The Door ... the most beautiful song of the album, if not of their history, in my humble opinion.
By dado
"It's incredible how in a three-and-a-half-minute track like 2+2=5, the band manages to incorporate three radical tempo changes without clashing."
"The lyrics, even if incomprehensible in parts, show Thom’s talent as a writer, depicting a world that seems a symbiosis of our own and Orwellian dystopia."
By Bleak
"The album blends the psychedelic and expansive atmospheres of 'OK Computer' with the less linear and more electronic ones of 'Kid A'."
"I’m faced with a complete work, rich in emotions, ideas, implications, and capable of provoking thoughts and reflections."
By Blackdog
A meeting point between the anguished melody of 'Ok Computer' and the 'cryptic' experimentalism of 'Kid A'.
A resolute and utopian rebellion against the current state of affairs, against the mystification of reality operated by politicians and mass media.
