Monday, November 7, 2016

#2231 Radiohead - In Rainbows Disc 2

Reviewed late 11/19

Some day I'll stop seeing every record in terms of the new American order, but not just yet. not in the face of prescient terror about Down is the New Up, about this being a nightmare you keep failing to wake from, a (4 minute) warning from two elections before we dropped into the worst timeline.

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That aside.

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It's a bonus disc best cut in half: the first 4 tracks are the kind of moaned-out filler that's been crowding Radiohead EP's since the 90's. The MKs are throwaways, the actual songs go nowhere. But if you slice off those last 4 tracks, you've got a good little listen. Some real heart, some real grasping, some real pain, some real beauty -- that desperation spiked with the abstract that Radiohead does best, cutting to some core of our uncertainty about what this all means/

3.5/5

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