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As if emerging from a world of plastic and aluminum, Radiohead's latest work deceives by pretending to be a new and absolute dive into their private and very personal way of understanding electronics.
"15 Steps", the opening song, is a classic jolt from the Oxford band tainted with drum machine and effected bass, a child of that total immersion that was the gestation of works such as Kid A or Amnesiac. What there is to say about this album, however, is something else entirely. After 3 albums that had given electronic experimentation ample space (with astounding results), the distance from the acoustic/distorted sounds of "Ok Computer" or "The Bends" was beginning to weigh a bit, at least for me. The extraordinary inventiveness and genius of this group, the best in my opinion in recent years, is the ability to experiment (a rare commodity in today's market, enslaved to easy riffs and sellable choruses), the search for a union between past and future, between established sounds and new intuitions.
Those who have made music history are those who have dirtied hard rock with blues, pop with psychedelia, jazz with prog rock, fusion, change, this is music. What Radiohead accomplished was a conceptual and avant-garde work, the fusion between rock (acoustic and not) with music, which today represents the broadest and most imaginative possibility of experimentation, electronics. It is for this reason that I celebrate this band and this CD with all these praises and reminiscences; "In Rainbow" reconciles Radiohead's electronic vein with its rock origins. It is a much more performed record than the previous ones, although for this reason, I do not consider it better. But pearls like "All I Need", "Weird Fishes", "Reckoner", "Nude" and "Jigsaw Falling” convey a project. That essential union that keeps music alive.
Experimentation is the only way to carry on our greatest passion. And Radiohead does it better than anyone else.
PS Seen live in Milan... Magnificent! He's out of his mind... He loses it!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 15 Step (03:58)
How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out, then you cut the string
How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
First you reel me out, and then you cut the string
You used to be alright
What happened?
Did the cat get your tongue?
Did your string come undone?
One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow
You used to be alright
What happened?
Etcetera, etcetera
Fads for whatever
Fifteen steps, then a sheer drop
How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out, then you cut the string
02 Bodysnatchers (04:02)
I do not
Understand
What it is
I've done wrong
Full of holes
Check for pulse
Blink your eyes
One for yes
Two for no
I have no idea what I am talking about
I am trapped in this body and can't get out
Ooooohhhh
You killed the sound
Removed backbone
A pale imitation
With the edges sawn off
I have no idea what you are talking about
Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your ass
Ooooohhhh
Has the light gone out for you?
Because the light's gone out for me
It is the 21st century
It is the 21st century
It can follow you like a dog
It brought me to my knees
They got a skin and they put me in
They got a skin and they put me in
All the lines wrapped around my face
All the lines wrapped around my face
Are for anybody else to see
Are for anybody else to see
I'm a lie
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
I've seen it coming
03 Nude (04:15)
Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You paint yourself white
And fill up with noise
But there'll be something missing
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails
So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You'll go to hell
For what your dirty mind is thinking
04 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (05:18)
In the deepest ocean
The bottom of the sea
Your eyes
They turn me
Why should I stay here?
Why should I stay?
I'd be crazy not to follow
Follow where you lead
Your eyes
They turn me
Turn me on to phantoms
I follow to the edge of the earth
And fall off
Yeah, everybody leaves
If they get the chance
And this is my chance
I get eaten by the worms
And weird fishes
Picked over by the worms
And weird fishes
Weird fishes
Weird fishes
I...I hit the bottom
Hit the bottom and escape
Escape
I...I hit the bottom
Hit the bottom and escape
Escape
05 All I Need (03:49)
I'm the next act
Waiting in the wings
I'm an animal
Trapped in your hot car
I am all the days
That you choose to ignore
You are all I need
You're all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds
I am a moth
Who just wants to share your light
I'm just an insect
Trying to get out of the night
I only stick with you
Because there are no others
You are all I need
You're all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds
It's all wrong, It's all right
It's all wrong, It's all right
It's all wrong, It's all right
It's all wrong, It's all right
It's all, it's all
06 Faust Arp (02:10)
One two three four
Wakey wakey
Rise and shine
It's on again, off again, on again
Watch me fall
Like dominoes
In pretty patterns
Fingers in the blackbird pie
I'm tingling, tingling, tingling
It's what you feel, not what you ought to
What you ought to
Reasonable and sensible
Dead from the neck up
I guess I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
We thought you had it in you
But no, no, no
For no real reason
Squeeze the tubes and empty bottles
And take a bow, take a bow, take a bow
It's what you feel, not what you ought to
What you ought to
The elephant that's in the room is
Tumbling, tumbling, tumbling
Duplicate and triplicate
And plastic bags
And duplicate and triplicate
Dead from the neck up
I guess I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
We thought you had it in you
But no, no, no
Exactly where do you get off?
Is enough, is enough
I love you but enough is enough
Enough of that stuff
There's no real reason
You've got a head full of feathers
You're gonna melt into butter
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