Label: Xl Recordings
Released: Jul 11, 2006 |
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| The Eraser |  |
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by Luke. |
It's true. I'm most likely biased. I am a huge Radiohead fan and must fess up before we go any further. Now that we've got filthy secrets out there, let's carry on. First off...The Eraser is an interesting listen and most likely won't be attracting any new fans outside of those established Radiohead fans. The album runs 9 songs at 41 minutes long. Nigel Godrich (long time Radiohead producer) and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead guitarist) helped Yorke on this effort.
The songs are spacy, moody, and dancy but surprisingly enough, they are actually songs - they have verses and choruses and you could actually sing along with most of them. "Analyse" and "Black Swan" are the bright spot on the first half of this predominantly electro-keys-based album. A few of the songs use Thom's vocals, humming, skatting, what-have-you, as the basis for the loops and percussion - it makes for an interesting listen but nothing more.
"Atoms for Peace" has a simple keys riff running throughout it and is very simplistic but it is the most optimistic and happy song on the album - making it an oddball, but a delicious oddball at that.
Anyhow, on the whole the songs do seem somewhat forced and thrown together...but that's something we've been made aware of through various interviews by Yorke and Godrich themselves. So, if you take it for what it's worth & you happen to be a Radiohead fan then you'll certainly enjoy this Kid Aish nugget. If you have yet to be introduced to Radiohead, then skip this and come back to it after you go pick up The Bends and OK Computer. Seriously, go get them.
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