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Strengths: NA
Weaknesses: NA
Summary: 2001-07-10 00:00:00 Radiohead has done it again with this breathtakingly beutiful soundscape! I found it to be a bit more "accessable" than "Kid A", that is I liked it a lot when I first listened to it, but perhaps I was more prepared this time around! Nevertheless, it still sounds better and better each subsequent time I listen to it. It contains some tracks that are just as jarring and unexpected (perhaps even moreso) as those on "Kid A" such as the Electronic gnashing and distorted spoken word on "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors", the techno/gamelan ambience of the opening track, "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box", and the backwards musical and vocal tracks on "Like Spinning Plates". At the same time, "Amnesiac" offers slightly more conventional fare like the soothing and strangely optimistic (for Thom Yorke) piano ballad, "Pyramid Song, which boasts a hummable melody and Jonny Greenwood's skillfuly dramatic string arrangement. The songs "Knives Out" and "I Might Be Wrong" offer dancable beats and more rock-oriented arrangements, but still sound far from passe or typical. Radiohead even shows some jazz influence with "You And Whose Army" and the closing track "Life In A Glass House", a New Orlean's funeral march with wry, insightful lyrics. While not as thematically solid as "Kid A", Amnesiac is much more diverse and even more creative. I think that it's Radiohead's greatest album so far!
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