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Is it possible that almost a year after the release of this album no one has yet written a decent review? The Radiohead did well, then.
After the success of the previous "In Rainbows" (perhaps due to the lesser experimentation, or the grimaces of the bassist Colin Greenwood), everyone expected something along the same lines. Wait. Déjà vu. The public falls for it again. Yet it's been over ten years since that Ok Computer that changed the Oxford group. Yet they had warned us. Fast-paced, quick, and incisive music, disposable, in today's musical landscape. Impossible to listen to the eight tracks individually. An album to listen to in one go. But this is not an album. It's a journey. Just something to make us detach from the world for a moment, going against the grain in search of our true selves, trying to bloom (Bloom), just to realize the jellyfish floating above our heads. Yet we never noticed them. But now we are no longer ourselves. The journey has started. If at first we are slightly detached, in search of an explanation, all this is cooled down with the schizophrenic Morning Mr. Magpie. Quick and incisive blows, to break down the last barriers that bind us to this world, and to delve into our innermost thoughts, surrendering to the movement of the waves, as in Little By Little, a fairly linear track that will appeal to most on the first listen. But if you're thinking about something while listening, you're wrong. And the Radiohead make you understand, they make you understand that this album is not meant for everyone, but only for those who are brave enough to discover their essence, ending the first part of the album with Feral (did someone say dubstep?), just to check who has actually gotten lost, a necessary quality to proceed in the second part of the album.
At this point, the album will have conveniently flown out of the window at high speed for most. Take the opportunity to retrieve as many as possible because now the fun begins. The second part opens with Lotus Flower, a small lyrical masterpiece, in whose video Thom Yorke, with steps worthy of the best drunk, lets himself go to his instincts. Is it perhaps a suggestion? The fact is that the song doesn't give you time to react, maybe you don't want to react. Do what you want. Do what you want. The song flies and moves on to the masterpiece of the album, Codex, which partly reminds me of Pyramid Song. Both are united by the message: don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to get lost, to free what you hid long ago. This isn't what you are. Anyway, time is up, the ancestral journey is about to come to an end. If we shouldn't be afraid of disappearing upon our "return" it's reminded to us by Give Up The Ghost. Let go of all the ghosts of your past. You've found your true self. What you really want to be. Someone had stopped you, but now you've found the courage to look back, retrieve your skin, and continue your path. The mission of the album is accomplished, no more songs are needed. For this, we wake up suddenly with Separator (wake me up, wake me up), maybe because of the incisive drums, maybe because we finally realized that we need to put dividers between the different periods of our lives. That's why when the album ends, we still feel alienated. It will take a while to realize how we've decided to move forward now.
This is a hermetic, cryptic album, which will take on different characterizations depending on the listener. It stirred nostalgia in me. Not for the Radiohead. But for when I decided to hide my true self. The journey unfortunately (or fortunately?) only works on first listen, at first impact, just one shot, use it well. Indeed, fast, disposable music, a beautiful cutout in today's music landscape, made only of moments.
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