Radiohead
Minidick [Hacked]

When choosing how to get my day off to a frustrating start, among the various options, there was that of jumping onto Debaser and writing my usual nonsense about an album as hyped as it is useless.
I'm talking about these tapes allegedly stolen from Tom Yorke's house, regarding the recording sessions of the 90s masterpiece album "Ok Computer".
18 tracks (shall we call them tracks?) exhausting, endless, ragged, recorded in demo without any care for sound, etc. Some lasting an hour and a half each for an interminable session of almost 18 hours of music (?): dystopichaotic, disorientating, depleted, tattered, and inconclusive enough to make the vein on your right temples throb. An exercise in style for masochists with depressive tendencies capable of achieving assisted suicide after just a few hours of listening.

It seems that the hacked work of Radiohead has already prompted the thieves to join a rehab community.
Tracks already edited (on the album OK Bla bla) without any care for sound and full of blemishes (the birth of Paranoid Android, Karma Police, etc.) reissued in more tracks plus the addition of bland and superficial improvisations. Material which, as guitarist Jonny Greenwood highlighted, would never have been released. And he was right to say so.
Let's say that this move by the group of NOT giving in to the thieves' blackmail (they only asked for 150,000 dollars, the poor things) was puzzling.
Then we have to see if any fans will really have the guts to endure these 18 hours of vein-slitting material at the cost of just 18 dollars. Even if the proceeds, given the scarcity and poverty of the content, seem to be destined for the environmental NGO Extinction Rebellion, which has already made a name for itself in London.

I'll tell you, to me this whole thing "smells" of a staged marketing operation. However, I'm just an old grumpy misanthrope whose heroic reviews from years past on Debaser are long forgotten.